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    In genomics, a genome-wide association study (GWA study, or GWAS), is an observational study of a genome-wide set of genetic variants in different individuals...
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    organized a genome-wide association study (GWAS) regarding schizophrenia with the objective of constructing scores of risk propensity. That study was the...
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  • In genome-wide association studies, genome-wide significance (abbreviated GWS) is a specific threshold for determining the statistical significance of...
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    low mutation frequencies. In research, whole-genome sequencing can be used in a Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) – a project aiming to determine the...
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  • lower risk, common variants (identified by candidate studies or genome-wide association studies) and high risk, rare variants (which could be caused by...
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    is genome-wide association study (GWAS). Genome-wide genetic data can be generated by multiple technologies, including SNP array and whole genome sequencing...
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  • epidemiological study analogous to the genome-wide association study, or GWAS. The EWAS systematically examines the association between a complex disease and multiple...
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  • the genome directly. This led to major advances in model organism research (e.g., knockout mice) and in human studies (e.g., genome-wide association studies)...
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  • genomes. Association mapping has been most widely applied to the study of human disease, specifically in the form of a genome-wide association study (GWAS)...
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  • candidate causal genes in candidate gene analysis following genome-wide association studies. TWAS looks at the RNA products of a specific tissue and gives...
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