GWA
Origin
Abbreviation of genome-wide association or genome-wide analysis
Full definition of GWA
Noun
GWA
(uncountable)- Allelic association for genes throughout a genome.
- 2010, Vicki Glaser, "Turning Data into Genomic Medicine" in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, Vol 30, No 21, pg. 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 Nickerson, Ph.D. noted.