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Nature Genetics 41, 765–766 (1 July 2009) | doi:10.1038/ng0709-765

High marks for GWAS

Stephen Chanock

Every investigator conducting a genome-wide association study (GWAS) has a moment of pause before looking at their newly minted results. After all the effort to collect phenotypes and biospecimens, generate genotypes and conduct association analyses, there is a moment of truth when one wonders whether it has been worth it.