GWA
See also: gwa
English edit
Etymology edit
Abbreviation of genome-wide association or genome-wide analysis
Noun edit
GWA (uncountable)
- Allelic association for genes throughout a genome.
- 2010, Vicki Glaser, “Turning Data into Genomic Medicine”, in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, volume 30, number 21, page 36:
- The results of large-scale GWA studies are increasingly populating leading scientific journals and facilitating family-based linkage analysis and disease association studies, she [Debbie Nickerson, Ph.D.] noted.