Leveraging Hierarchical Population Structure in Discrete Association Studies
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Leveraging Hierarchical Population Structure in Discrete Association Studies
Population structure can confound the identification of correlations in biological data. Such confounding has been recognized in multiple biological disciplines, resulting in a disparate collection of proposed solutions. We examine several methods that correct for confounding on discrete data with hierarchical population structure and identify two distinct confounding processes, which we call c...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000591