META-GSA: Combining Findings from Gene-Set Analyses across Several Genome-Wide Association Studies

Albert Rosenberger; Stefanie Friedrichs; Christopher I. Amos; Paul Brennan; Gordon Fehringer; Joachim Heinrich; Rayjean J. Hung; Thomas Muley; Martina Müller-Nurasyid; Angela Risch; Heike Bickeböller

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0140179

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META-GSA: Combining Findings from Gene-Set Analyses across Several Genome-Wide Association Studies

Albert Rosenberger ,

* E-mail: arosenb@gwdg.de

Affiliation Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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Stefanie Friedrichs,

Affiliation Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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Christopher I. Amos,

Affiliation Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH, United States of America
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Paul Brennan,

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
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Gordon Fehringer,

Affiliation Prosserman Centre for Health Research, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Joachim Heinrich,

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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Rayjean J. Hung,

Affiliation Prosserman Centre for Health Research, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Thomas Muley,

Affiliations Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany, Thoraxklinik at University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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Martina Müller-Nurasyid,

Affiliations Department of Medicine I, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany, Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
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Angela Risch,

Affiliations Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany, Division of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany, Division of Molecular Biology, University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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Heike Bickeböller

Affiliation Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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META-GSA: Combining Findings from Gene-Set Analyses across Several Genome-Wide Association Studies

Albert Rosenberger,
Stefanie Friedrichs,
Christopher I. Amos,
Paul Brennan,
Gordon Fehringer,
Joachim Heinrich,
Rayjean J. Hung,
Thomas Muley,
Martina Müller-Nurasyid,
Angela Risch

Published: October 26, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140179

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