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Controlling bias and inflation in epigenome- and transcriptome-wide association studies using the empirical null distribution
We show that epigenome- and transcriptome-wide association studies (EWAS and TWAS) are prone to significant inflation and bias of test statistics, an unrecognized phenomenon introducing spurious findings if left unaddressed. Neither GWAS-based methodology nor state-of-the-art confounder adjustment m...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5273857/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28129774 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-016-1131-9 |