Informed conditioning on clinical covariates increases power in case-control association studies.

Informed conditioning on clinical covariates increases power in case-control association studies.

Genetic case-control association studies often include data on clinical covariates, such as body mass index (BMI), smoking status, or age, that may modify the underlying genetic risk of case or control samples. For example, in type 2 diabetes, odds ratios for established variants estimated from low-...

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Main Authors: Noah Zaitlen, Sara Lindström, Bogdan Pasaniuc, Marilyn Cornelis, Giulio Genovese, Samuela Pollack, Anne Barton, Heike Bickeböller, Donald W Bowden, Steve Eyre, Barry I Freedman, David J Friedman, John K Field, Leif Groop, Aage Haugen, Joachim Heinrich, Brian E Henderson, Pamela J Hicks, Lynne J Hocking, Laurence N Kolonel, Maria Teresa Landi, Carl D Langefeld, Loic Le Marchand, Michael Meister, Ann W Morgan, Olaide Y Raji, Angela Risch, Albert Rosenberger, David Scherf, Sophia Steer, Martin Walshaw, Kevin M Waters, Anthony G Wilson, Paul Wordsworth, Shanbeh Zienolddiny, Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, Christopher Haiman, David J Hunter, Robert M Plenge, Jane Worthington, David C Christiani, Debra A Schaumberg, Daniel I Chasman, David Altshuler, Benjamin Voight, Peter Kraft, Nick Patterson, Alkes L Price
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1003032&type=printable
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