Gwa

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Allelic association for genes throughout a genome. uncountable

    "The results of large-scale GWA studies are increasingly populating leading scientific journals and facilitating family-based linkage analysis and disease association studies, she [Debbie Nickerson, Ph.D.] noted."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A Bantu language spoken in Nigeria.

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"The results of large-scale GWA studies are increasingly populating leading scientific journals and facilitating family-based linkage analysis and disease association studies, she [Debbie Nickerson, Ph.D.] noted."

Etymology

Abbreviation of genome-wide association or genome-wide analysis

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