It's #OpenAccessFriday! Genome-wide association studies #GWASs help us understand variations among people. But they only explain a fraction of trait heritability. Researchers @betascience @gavin_m_douglas examine this “missing heritability”: https://t.co/Q
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Heritable traits vary by person. These variations may be explained by genome-wide association studies (GWASs), but GWASs fall short. That has teams looking to the microbiome for this “missing heritability”. Read the study by @betascience @gavin_m_douglas:
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Re-evaluating the relationship between missing heritability and the microbiome "We discuss potential approaches that could be explored to determine whether integrating microbiome sequencing data into GWASs is useful." https://t.co/wWWnlikaMB
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RT @LabMizrahi: Re-evaluating the relationship between missing heritability and the microbiome https://t.co/Uimdn313Hn