In most GWAS, the participants are assumed to be unrelated and to come from a single population. However, even in carefully designed studies, some degrees of relatedness and population stratification ...
Meta-analysis is a commonly used approach to increase the sample size for genome-wide association searches when individual studies are otherwise underpowered. Here, we present a meta-analysis ...
Sharp bounds on the variance of the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney U-statistic are obtained for the case of symmetric distributions and shift alternatives. Journal Information The Annals of Statistics ...