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Sjoerd van Alten

Tinbergen InstituteORCID 0000-0003-0602-8760Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Genetic & Genomic Medicine· 1 Genetics· 1

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Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 2 Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 2 Organism:human· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:fine-mapping· 1

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T. J. GalamaiD· 2 shared Alexandra HavdahliD· 1 shared Andries T. MareesiD· 1 shared Benjamin W. DomingueiD· 1 shared Boyan ZhengiD· 1 shared Edoardo CiscatoiD· 1 shared Elizabeth C. CorfieldiD· 1 shared Jason M. FletcheriD· 1 shared

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GeneticsbioRxivPreprintFeb 3, 2025

Genetic basis of partner choice

Qinwen Zheng, Sjoerd van Alten, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad…·Qiongshi Lu

This study performs the first GWAS on a latent partner choice index using 206,617 individuals, identifying genetic correlates and solutions to reduce assortative mating biases in genetic studies.

4 citations

humanGWAS summary statistics

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Genetic & Genomic MedicinemedRxivPreprintNov 10, 2022

Correcting for volunteer bias in GWAS uncovers novel genetic variants and increases heritability estimates

Sjoerd van Alten, Benjamin W. Domingue, Jessica D. Faul…·Andries T. Marees

This paper develops WGWAS to correct volunteer bias in GWAS, uncovering novel genetic variants and increasing heritability estimates for specific phenotypes.

6 citations

humanGWAS summary statistics

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