New statistical method exponentially increases ability to discover genetic insights
E-Mail Pleiotropy analysis, which provides insight on how individual genes result in multiple characteristics, has become increasingly valuable as medicine continues to lean into mining genetics to inform disease treatments. Privacy stipulations, though, make it difficult to perform comprehensive pleiotropy analysis because individual patient data often cant be easily and regularly shared between sites. However, a statistical method called Sum-Share, developed at Penn Medicine, can pull summa...
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