METAL: fast and efficient meta-analysis of genomewide association scans
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- 8 July 2010
- journal article
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- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Bioinformatics
- Vol. 26 (17) , 2190-2191
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btq340
Abstract
Summary: METAL provides a computationally efficient tool for meta-analysis of genome-wide association scans, which is a commonly used approach for improving power complex traits gene mapping studies. METAL provides a rich scripting interface and implements efficient memory management to allow analyses of very large data sets and to support a variety of input file formats. Availability and implementation: METAL, including source code, documentation, examples, and executables, is available at http://www.sph.umich.edu/csg/abecasis/metal/ Contact:goncalo@umich.eduKeywords
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