Chunk #56 — Materials and Methods — Posterior Computation

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Bayesian test for colocalisation between pairs of genetic association studies using summary statistics.

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Next, to avoid computing the proportionality constant in Equation 1, we can reformulate the posterior probability for each hypothesis by writing this quantity as a ratio. For example, the posterior probability under hypothesis 4, dividing each of these terms by the baseline , is:(2)