Power calculations for genetic risk score

10 October 2013 1 2K Report

How do you approach power calculations for genetic risk scores?

I guess it depends on the type or analysis you want to perform. E.g. For prediction or instrumental variable estimation? See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21216802 for the latter

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