Microbiome sequencing data are known to be biased; the measured taxa relative abundances can be systematically distorted from their true values at every step in the experimental/analysis workflow. If ...

Linear mixed models are increasingly used for the analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of binary phenotypes because they can efficiently and robustly account for population ...

When researchers verify the effects of genes or gene–environment interactions on common diseases or age-related diseases, such as diabetes, cancer, or coronary heart disease, they usually regard age ...