Rare Variants Create Synthetic Genome-Wide Associations

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Samuel P. Dickson,

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Center for Human Genome Variation, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
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Kai Wang,

Affiliation Center for Applied Genomics, Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Ian Krantz,

Affiliations Center for Applied Genomics, Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Hakon Hakonarson,

Affiliations Center for Applied Genomics, Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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David B. Goldstein

* E-mail: d.goldstein@duke.edu

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Center for Human Genome Variation, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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Reader Comments

lists variants
http://plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000294#article1.body1.sec3.p5

rs9300039 is incorrectly written as ra9300039.

It would be nice if that table of text was actual text, not an image.

No competing interests declared.

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