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Principled distillation of UK Biobank phenotype data reveals underlying structure in human variation (2024)


Carey and colleagues reveal 35 major latent constructs (factors) in the phenotype data of unrelated individuals with predominantly estimated European genetic ancestry from UK Biobank.

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