Sentences with phrase «wide association study scanned»

A second, genome - wide association study scanned the genome for common variants behind autism in more than 10,000 affected children, their families, and controls.

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Using an approach called a genome - wide association study, researchers scanned complete sets of DNA in thousands of participants, looking for small variations that appear more often in people with the disease than in healthy individuals.

While several studies in the intervening years have investigated whether particular genes were responsible for modifying HD onset, this is the first to employ genome - wide association (GWA) analysis, which scans an individual's whole genome to identify chromosomal regions containing variants that are associated with the disease traits that are being studied.

Nestadt and his team conducted what is known as a genome - wide association study, scanning the genomes of more than 1,400 people with OCD and more than 1,000 close relatives of people with the mental disorder.

Genome - wide association scans with high - throughput metabolic profiling are powerful tools to study into how genetic variation influences metabolism and complex disease.

Within this consortium, she has conducted genome - wide association scans for over 75,000 participants and has undertaken one of the first large - scale whole - genome sequencing studies for colorectal cancer, sequencing the whole genomes of 2,000 patients with colorectal cancer and 1,000 healthy control participants.