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S4 container for a multi-study QTL analysis: a collection of individual-level QtlDataset studies, optionally combined with a QtlSumStats collection of summary-statistic-only studies. Used as the input to multi-study fine-mapping and colocboost-style analyses.

At least two studies must be present in total, counting qtlDatasets entries plus the studies in sumStats.

For traits that appear in more than one qtlDatasets entry, the per-trait genomic positions must agree across the entries (enforced by validity). No cross-checking is performed against sumStats variant positions, since summary statistics are already computed and cannot be re-aligned at construction time.

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qtlDatasets

A named list of QtlDataset objects, keyed by study identifier.

sumStats

An optional QtlSumStats carrying additional summary-statistic-only studies. NULL when absent.