Quality control and quality assurance in genotypic data for genome-wide association studies.

ABSTRACT: Genome-wide scans of nucleotide variation in human subjects are providing an increasing number of replicated associations with complex disease traits. Most of the variants detected have small effects and, collectively, they account for a small fraction of the total genetic variance. Very large sample sizes are required to identify and validate findings. In this situation, even small sources of systematic or random error can cause spurious results or obscure real effects. The need for careful attention to data quality has been appreciated for some time in this field, and a number of strategies for quality control and quality assurance (QC/QA) have been developed. Here we extend these methods and describe a system of QC/QA for genotypic data in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). This sy

SUBMITTER: Laurie CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3061487 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature