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Distributed Communities
21. •The Genetic Causes of Disease (David Heckerman)
•WellcomeTrust for a GWAS for a large population
•Looking for causes for seven common diseases (bipolar, r. arthritis, coronary, hypertension, ….)
•Confounding is a problem. Needed a new algorithm.
•Ran on Azure cloud using 35,000 cores in 3 weeks.