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Peter Alexander Gerlach

Stanford UniversityORCID 0009-0000-7108-0026Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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GeneticsbioRxivPreprintDec 20, 2025

High false sign rates in transcriptome-wide association studies

Peter Alexander Gerlach, Nikhil Milind, Jeffrey P. Spence, Jonathan K. Pritchard

This study estimates the false sign rate in transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) for plasma proteins and complex traits, finding high discordance between predicted and expected gene effects.

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