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CCRaVAT and QuTie - enabling analysis of rare variants in large-scale case control and quantitative trait association studies

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CCRaVAT and QuTie - enabling analysis of rare variants in large-scale case control and quantitative trait association studies
Background: Genome-wide association studies have been successful in finding common variants influencing common traits. However, these associations only account for a fraction of trait heritability. There has been a shift in the field towards studying low frequency and rare variants, which are now widely recognised as putative complex trait determinants. Despite this increasing focus on examining the role of low frequency and rare variants in complex disease susceptibility, there is a lack of user-friendly analytical packages implementing powerful association tests for the analysis of rare variants. Results: We have developed two software tools, CCRaVAT (Case-Control Rare Variant Analysis Tool) and QuTie (Quantitative Trait), which enable efficient large-scale analysis of low frequency and rare variants. Both programs implement a collapsing method examining the accumulation of low frequency and rare variants across a locus of interest that has more power than single variant analysis. C...
Robert Lawrence, Aaron G. Day-Williams, Katherine
Added 08 Dec 2010
Updated 08 Dec 2010
Type Journal
Year 2010
Where BMCBI
Authors Robert Lawrence, Aaron G. Day-Williams, Katherine S. Elliott, Andrew P. Morris, Eleftheria Zeggini
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