GeneticsG3 Genes Genomes GeneticsPeer-reviewed
Imperfect Linkage Disequilibrium Generates Phantom Epistasis (& Perils of Big Data)
Gustavo de los Campos, Daniel Sørensen, Miguel Ángel Toro
The paper shows that imperfect linkage disequilibrium can create false epistasis signals in GWAS, even when the true genetic model is additive, and warns against overinterpreting such results in large datasets.
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