Chunk #20 — 2 Methods — 2.7 Implementation

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Fast and efficient QTL mapper for thousands of molecular phenotypes.

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(3) FastQTL uses standard file formats: genotype dosages and phenotype quantifications are specified in Variant Calling Format and UCSC BED format, respectively. All files are required to be indexed with Tabix (Li, 2011) to enable fast retrieval of specific genomic regions.