Most genetic association studies focus on bi-allelic single nucleotide variants (SNVs). Here, to investigate the possibility that multi-allelic variation of short tandem repeats influences human traits, the authors perform a phenome-wide association study in the UK Biobank, identifying novel associations missed by traditional SNV-based genome-wide association analyses.
- Celine A. Manigbas
- Bharati Jadhav
- Andrew J. Sharp
