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It is worth noting that these SNPs aren't causal, they are just associated. The resolution of GWAS isn't at the level yet where we can pick out individual chan
by searine 8y ago
It is worth noting that these SNPs aren't causal, they are just associated.
The resolution of GWAS isn't at the level yet where we can pick out individual changes that cause a phenotype. Instead we can detect that a chunk of the genome is associated with a phenotype. These snps are like a street name, they identify the region associated.
We need whole-genome sequence on a million-person scale to actually find the causal variant. That will come with time.