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Multifactor-dimensionality reduction
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Dr J D Blakey
Division of Therapeutics, Queen’s Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK; john.blakey@nottingham.ac.uk
MDR, a primary tool for exploratory analyses
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Despite the wealth of evidence that many common diseases have a strong heritable component, genetic association studies have provided disappointingly little insight into their pathophysiology. One reason for this is that, buoyed by the success of identifying underlying variants for over 1000 uncommon conditions, researchers have largely continued to ask simple questions of more complex disorders. However, in this issue of Thorax, Park et al1 (see page 265) present an association study that uses one of a number of new statistical methods that have the potential to produce more biologically relevant associations.
For much of the last century, the suggestion of a genetic association study as we now know them might have raised a few eyebrows, regardless of the leap in technology required. "Natura non facit saltum" (nature does not make leaps) was a favourite aphorism of Darwin and greatly influenced mathematical models of adaptation.2
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