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Computational and statistical approaches to analyzing variants identified by exome sequencing

Nathan O Stitziel1,2†, Adam Kiezun2,3† and Shamil Sunyaev2,3*

1 Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA

2 Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA

3 Division of Genetics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA

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Genome Biology 2011, 12:227 doi:10.1186/gb-2011-12-9-227

Published: 14 September 2011

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Additional materials. A table of available statistical methods for analyzing variants discovered in sequencing studies [86-94].

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