Cluster analysis for DNA methylation profiles having a detection threshold

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Marjoram, Paul ^a   Chang, Jing ^a   Laird, Peter W ^b   Siegmund, Kimberly D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SCALE; CONVENTIONAL CLUSTERING; CORRELATION STRUCTURE; DETECTION THRESHOLD; DNA METHYLATION; INFORMATIVE GENES; MOLECULAR FEATURE; TUMOR HETEROGENEITY;

ALKYLATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; METHYLATION;

GENES;

DNA;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA METHYLATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 33748133404     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-361     Document Type: Article

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