Missing heritability may be hiding in repeats

Science. 2021 Sep 24;373(6562):1440-1441. doi: 10.1126/science.abl7794. Epub 2021 Sep 23.

Authors

Melissa Gymrek^{1

2}, Alon Goren¹

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¹ Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
² Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.

PMID: 34554784
DOI: 10.1126/science.abl7794

Abstract

Unexplored variable number tandem repeats make a large contribution to complex traits.

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