September 10, 2010

Genome Wide Association Studies

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but as far I understand it, genome wide association studies look for single polymorphisms that are correlated with disease, and do not currently have much power to detect combinations of polymorphisms.

I predict that combinations of polymorphisms will explain a large part of the link between genotype and health.  New algorithms to do this mike incorporate additional information linking genes and loci to increase power.

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