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Chunk #33 — Cumulative, Bayesian, and sequential meta-analysis issues

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Meta-analysis in genome-wide association studies.
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In all, besides the statistical significance of the summary estimate, it is useful to interpret summary estimates in terms of the Bayes factors and credibility that they confer to the postulated association. Several straightforward Bayesian approaches are readily available [39-41] and allow estimating the credibility of the meta-analysis results under different assumptions.