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Genome-Wide Association Study

Known as: Genome Wide Association Scan, GWAS, WGAS 
An analysis comparing the allele frequencies of all available (or a whole GENOME representative set of) polymorphic markers in unrelated patients… 
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Genome-Wide Association Study of Retinopathy in Individuals without Diabetes
Background Mild retinopathy (microaneurysms or dot-blot hemorrhages) is observed in persons without diabetes or hypertension and… 
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Population genomic and genome-wide association studies of agroclimatic traits in sorghum
Accelerating crop improvement in sorghum, a staple food for people in semiarid regions across the developing world, is key to… 
Review
2011
Review
2011
Epigenome-wide association studies for common human diseases
Despite the success of genome-wide association studies (GWASs) in identifying loci associated with common diseases, a substantial… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Genome-wide association study of leaf architecture in the maize nested association mapping population
US maize yield has increased eight-fold in the past 80 years, with half of the gain attributed to selection by breeders. During… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Genome-wide association study of flowering time and grain yield traits in a worldwide collection of rice germplasm
A high-density haplotype map recently enabled a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in a population of indica subspecies of… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Prioritizing candidate disease genes by network-based boosting of genome-wide association data.
Network "guilt by association" (GBA) is a proven approach for identifying novel disease genes based on the observation that… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Genome-wide association study in alopecia areata implicates both innate and adaptive immunity
Alopecia areata (AA) is among the most highly prevalent human autoimmune diseases, leading to disfiguring hair loss due to the… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Genome-wide association study in a Chinese Han population identifies nine new susceptibility loci for systemic lupus erythematosus
We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in a Chinese Han population by… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Genome-wide association study of alcohol dependence.
CONTEXT Alcohol dependence is a serious and common public health problem. It is well established that genetic factors play a… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Genome-wide association study identifies new multiple sclerosis susceptibility loci on chromosomes 12 and 20
To identify multiple sclerosis (MS) susceptibility loci, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in 1,618 cases and… 
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