Open AccessNoncoding Genome‐Wide Association Studies Variant for Obesity: Inroads Into Mechanism
Author(s) -
Wu Connie,
Arora Pankaj
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of the american heart association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.494
H-Index - 85
ISSN - 2047-9980
DOI - 10.1161/jaha.115.003060
Subject(s) - medicine , mechanism (biology) , genome wide association study , obesity , genetics , genome , computational biology , bioinformatics , gene , single nucleotide polymorphism , genotype , biology , philosophy , epistemology
For the past decade in human genetics, genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) have been the backbone for uncovering novel loci that could underlie a disease or phenotype of interest. However, the rapid growth in the field of human genetics has been plagued by a bottleneck in translating these GWAS