Accurate genetic and environmental covariance estimation with composite likelihood in genome-wide association studies

• Boran Gao,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8620-0534

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• Can Yang,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4407-3055

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• Jin Liu,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Program in Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5707-2078

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• Xiang Zhou

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xzhousph@umich.edu

  Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4331-7599

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