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Replication of promising signals was carried out in silico in five further scans (44,449 individuals), and de novo in 14 534 independent samples, all of European descent.<h4>Results</h4>None of the association signals the authors identified reach genome-wide levels of statistical significance, therefore stressing the need for corroboration in sample sets of a larger size. Application of analytical approaches to examine the allelic architecture of disease to the stage 1 genome-wide association scan data suggests that osteoarthritis is a highly polygenic disease with multiple risk variants conferring small effects.<h4>Conclusions</h4>Identifying loci conferring susceptibility to osteoarthritis will require large-scale sample sizes and well-defined phenotypes to minimise heterogeneity.","journal":"Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases","year":2011,"id":4881,"datarank":0.6892679775201885,"base_score":4.59511985013459,"endowment":4.59511985013459,"self_citation_contribution":0.6892679775201885,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.6892679775201885,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":98,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.1592,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2011-05-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":50620,"name":"K S Elliott","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":50621,"name":"N. 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