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Current association methods for correcting population stratification usually involve adjustment of global ancestry between study subjects.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: We suggest interrogating local population structure for fine mapping to more accurately locate true casual genes by better adjusting the confounding effect due to local ancestry. By extensive simulations on genome-wide datasets, we show that adjusting global ancestry may lead to false positives when local population structure is an important confounding factor. In contrast, adjusting local ancestry can effectively prevent false positives due to local population structure and thus can improve fine mapping for disease gene localization. We applied the local and global adjustments to the analysis of datasets from three genome-wide association studies, including European Americans, African Americans and Nigerians. Both European Americans and African Americans demonstrate greater variability in local ancestry than Nigerians. Adjusting local ancestry successfully eliminated the known spurious association between SNPs in the LCT gene and height due to the population structure existed in European Americans.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0xiaofeng.zhu@case.edu<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btq560","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2010,10,2]],"date-time":"2010-10-02T00:20:33Z","timestamp":1285978833000},"page":"2961-2968","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":66,"title":["Interrogating local population structure for fine mapping in genome-wide association studies"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"26","author":[{"given":"Huaizhen","family":"Qin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 2Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, 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