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Genome-wide Association Study of Seven Common Diseases

papers articles scientific paper paper major planned

Creators

  • Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, author

Canon Rationale

A major genomics paper, included for common-variant GWAS design, shared controls, large-scale association testing, and disease-mapping practice.

Evidence

  • citation context: Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, 'Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases...', Nature, 2007.
  • field survey: Nature Reviews Genetics commentary and retrospectives on genome-wide association studies.

Audit Flags

version dependency, epistemic status required

Completion unit: read the paper, focusing on study design, multiple testing, shared controls, and cross-disease results.

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