Bayesian statistical methods for genetic association studies

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We thank C. Hoggart for providing R code to compute the normal- exponential- gamma probability density function and J. Wakefield for helpful discussions and critical reading of an early draft. We thank R. Krauss for access to the CRP genotype and phenotype data that we analysed here. We are also grateful to W. Astle, A. Ramasamy, L. Bottolo, L. Coin, P. O'Reilly and H. Eleftherohorinou for discussions. The authors' work is supported in part by National Institutes of Health grants HL084689 ( to M. S.) and EP/C533542 ( to D. J. B.).