TY - JOUR AU - Elmansy, Dalia AU - Koyutürk, Mehmet PY - 2019 DA - 2019/06/20 TI - Cross-population analysis for functional characterization of type II diabetes variants JO - BMC Bioinformatics SP - 320 VL - 20 IS - 12 AB - As Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) have been increasingly used with data from various populations, it has been observed that data from different populations reveal different sets of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) that are associated with the same disease. Using Type II Diabetes (T2D) as a test case, we develop measures and methods to characterize the functional overlap of SNPs associated with the same disease across populations. SN - 1471-2105 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-019-2835-0 DO - 10.1186/s12859-019-2835-0 ID - Elmansy2019 ER -