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Genotype

Definition
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A genotype is the pair of alleles (or haploid allele) an individual carries at a variant.

Topics
Core genetics
Related
Additive Genetic Model Allele BGEN

Why it matters in GWAS

Association tests regress phenotype on genotype (or allele dose); QC filters missingness, HWE, and allele frequencies at the genotype level before testing.

Example usage

"At this locus, Genotype annotations were used to prioritize plausible biological mechanisms."

Additive Genetic Model Allele BGEN Genetic Demultiplexing Genotype Dosage Genotype Imputation Genotyping Array Haplotype Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE) Heterozygote Homozygote Phenotype Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Zygosity
Related-term network

Click any node to open that term page.

Node order. The current term is first. Next come every page linked from Related terms, in the same top-to-bottom order as that list. Then new terms appear in two-hop layers: for each of those direct neighbors (in that same order), their related terms are appended if not already listed. A third pass does the same for two-hop nodes. The walk stops when a fixed maximum number of nodes is reached.

References

← GenomicsDB Genotype calling →

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