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Data availability
This research was conducted using the UK Biobank Resource under application 33297. We thank the participants of UK Biobank for making this work possible. The UK Biobank genotype and phenotype data are available by application from https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/. Extended results can be accessed at our Zenodo repository https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5308562.
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Software and extended results, including an implementation of the Tractor association models, can be found at our Zenodo repository. (The Tractor software currently does not include logistic models for association; https://github.com/eatkinson/Tractor accessed 22 February 2021.)
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K.H. and B.P. conceived and designed the experiments. K.H. performed the experiments and statistical analyses. K.H., K.S.B., R.M. and A.B. collected and managed the data. K.H., K.S.B., R.M., A.B. and B.P. wrote the manuscript.
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Hou, K., Bhattacharya, A., Mester, R. et al. On powerful GWAS in admixed populations. Nat Genet 53, 1631–1633 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-021-00953-5
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