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Annotated Manhattan plots and QQ plots for GWAS using R, Revisited
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Annotated Manhattan plots and QQ plots for GWAS using R, Revisited

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This manuscript provides software and a tutorial for creating manhattan plots and QQ plots for genome-wide association studies using the R statistical computing environment.

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Turner, S. Annotated Manhattan plots and QQ plots for GWAS using R, Revisited. Nat Prec (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2011.6070.1

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  • GWAS
  • R
  • bioinformatics
  • visualization
  • manhattan plots
  • QQ plots
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