Which of the Following Statements About Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS)

question 29

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about genome-wide association studies (GWAS) is FALSE?

• A)GWAS use SNPs to compare populations of people with disease and people without disease to look for SNPs more likely to be present in those with disease.
• B)GWAS can be used even if more than one gene can cause the disease of interest.
• C)Sometimes GWAS will identify SNPs that are associated with a disease, but these SNPs do not affect the gene product of the gene that causes the disease.
• D)Studies using GWAS only examine SNPs that occur very rarely (<0.001%) in the population, as those SNPs are most likely to cause disease.

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