Colocalization analysis is commonly used to assess whether two or more traits share the same genetic signals identified in genome-wide association studies (GWAS), and is important for prioritizing targets for functional follow-up of GWAS results. Existing colocalization methods can have suboptimal performance when there are multiple causal variants in one genomic locus.
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