Genetic Association Studies of Copy-Number Variation: Should Assignment of Copy Number States Precede Testing?

• Patrick Breheny ,

  * E-mail: patrick.breheny@uky.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

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• Prabhakar Chalise,

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

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• Anthony Batzler,

  Affiliation Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Liewei Wang,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Brooke L. Fridley

  Affiliation Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

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