Quantifying the extent to which index event biases influence large genetic association studies
Hanieh Yaghootkar, Michael Bancks, Sam Jones, Aaron McDaid, Robin Beaumont, Louise Donnelly, Andrew Wood, Archie Campbell, Jessica Tyrrell, Lynne Hocking, Marcus Tuke, Katherine Ruth, Ewan Pearson, Anna Murray, Rachel Freathy, , Zoltan Kutalik
This study quantifies index event bias in large genetic association studies and finds it can explain some associations between disease risk alleles and BMI.
bioRxiv · Sep 12, 2016Genetics