Common sequence variants affect molecular function more than rare variants?

Sci Rep · 2017 · PMC5431670 · PMID 28487536

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extremely significantp-value < 2.2e-16actually significant

Given the large ExAC data sets sampling 60,706 individuals, the differences were extremely significant (p-value < 2.2e-16).

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