Compare and Contrast Meta Analysis (CCMA): A Method for Identification of Pleiotropic Loci in Genome-Wide Association Studies

• Hansjörg Baurecht ,

  * E-mail: hbaurecht@dermatology.uni-kiel.de

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Allergology and Venereology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

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• Melanie Hotze,

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Allergology and Venereology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

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• Elke Rodríguez,

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Allergology and Venereology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

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• Judith Manz,

  Affiliation Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

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• Stephan Weidinger,

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Allergology and Venereology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

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• Heather J. Cordell,

  Affiliation Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

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• Thomas Augustin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Augustin, Konstantin Strauch

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Konstantin Strauch

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Augustin, Konstantin Strauch

  Affiliations Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

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