A Powerful Method for Pleiotropic Analysis Under Composite Null Hypothesis Identifies Novel Shared Loci Between Type 2 Diabetes and Prostate Cancer

    April 2020 in “ bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) ”
    Debashree Ray, Nilanjan Chatterjee

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    Studysummary This study introduced a statistical method, PLACO, which revealed novel genetic regions associated with both Type 2 Diabetes and Prostate Cancer from GWAS data.
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