Genomic mining for complex disease traits with "random chemistry"

Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 395-411

  Eppstein, Margaret J ^a   Payne, Joshua L ^b   White, Bill C ^c   Moore, Jason H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b University of Vermont   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex traits; Data mining; Epistasis; Evolutionary algorithms; Feature selection; Genome wide association studies; Single nucleotide polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX TRAITS; EPISTASIS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA MINING; DATA STRUCTURES; DISEASES; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

EID: 36148957819     PISSN: 13892576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10710-007-9039-5     Document Type: Article

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