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#20 Add a comment about CUSTOMVARIABLE in METAL script
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# define variables that need to be accumulated across GWASes for each SNP.
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# such CUSTOMVARIABLE columns are optional, but it's a good practice to accumulate per-SNP sample size across studies.
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# it's also reasonale to compute per-study effective sample size, i.e. 4/(1/nca + 1/nco), and accumulate this value across studies.
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CUSTOMVARIABLE NCASE
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CUSTOMVARIABLE NCONTROL
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