Genome-wide association studies hold the potential for discovering genetic causes for a wide range of diseases, traits, and behaviors. However, the incredible amount of data handling, advanced statistics, and visualization have made conducting these studies difficult for researchers. Here we provide a tool, manhattan, for helping investigators easily visualize genome-wide association studies data in Stata.
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