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Edited by Terence P. Speed, University of California, Berkeley, CA, and accepted by the Editorial Board May 31, 2013 (received for review November 13, 2012)
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- David J. Balding1
- University College London Genetics Institute, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
Edited by Terence P. Speed, University of California, Berkeley, CA, and accepted by the Editorial Board May 31, 2013 (received for review November 13, 2012)
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- ↵1E-mail: d.balding{at}ucl.ac.uk.
Author contributions: D.J.B. designed research, performed research, analyzed data, and wrote the paper.
The author declares no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission. T.P.S. is a guest editor invited by the Editorial Board.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1219739110/-/DCSupplemental.
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