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Open AccessRapid detection of identity-by-descent tracts for mega-scale datasets
The ability to identify segments of genomes identical-by-descent (IBD) is a part of standard workflows in both statistical and population genetics. However, traditional methods for finding local IBD across all...
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No evidence of interaction between known lipid-associated genetic variants and smoking in the multi-ethnic PAGE population
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Open AccessGenetic variants associated with fasting glucose and insulin concentrations in an ethnically diverse population: results from the Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) study
Multiple genome-wide association studies (GWAS) within European populations have implicated common genetic variants associated with insulin and glucose concentrations. In contrast, few studies have been conduc...
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Open AccessA ν-support vector regression based approach for predicting imputation quality
Decades of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have accumulated large volumes of genomic data that can potentially be reused to increase statistical power of new studies, but different genoty** platforms ...
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Composing, optimizing, and executing plans for bioinformatics web services
The emergence of a large number of bioinformatics datasets on the Internet has resulted in the need for flexible and efficient approaches to integrate information from multiple bioinformatics data sources and ...
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Integrating data from heterogeneous data sources is a critical problem that has received a great deal of attention in recent years. There are two competing approaches to address this problem. The traditional a...