Genome-wide association studies

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Over the past decade, genetic epidemiology studies have progressed from studying single genetic variants in candidate genes to investigating millions of common genetic variants in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). A paradigm shift in human genetics is currently taking place towards genome-wide rare variant association studies, gene-gene (GxG) and gene-environment (GxE) interaction studies. However, the explosive growth of genetic data presents enormous challenges for future genome-wide association studies with great demands on computational resources and data management infrastructures. Current studies often employ sample sets of several 10k and sometimes even >100k samples and using the latest imputation references results in over 30 million genotypes per sample.

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German Bioinformatic Network de.NBI, this service project provides guidance for planning (and execution) of SNP array genotyping and hands-on support for large-scale quality control, variant annotation and association analysis of GWAS data. Our expertise and work experience gathered from >90 GWAS and custom array studies in the past 10 years will allow scientists from different disciplines to study genetic factors efficiently and standardized.

 

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