Evaluation of two methods for computational HLA haplotypes inference using a real dataset

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Bettencourt, Bruno F ^a,b   Santos, Margarida R ^a,b   Fialho, Raquel N ^a,b   Couto, Ana R ^a,b   Peixoto, Maria J ^a,b   Pinheiro, João P ^a,b   Spínola, Hélder ^c   Mora, Marian G ^d   Santos, Cristina ^e   Brehm, António ^c   Bruges Armas, Jácome ^a,b  

^a Hospital Santo Espirito de Angra do Heroesmo   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MADEIRA   (Portugal)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ALGORITHMS; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; FREQUENCY CALCULATIONS; HAPLOTYPE FREQUENCIES; HAPLOTYPE INFERENCE; MEAN SQUARED ERROR; POPULATION GENETICS; SIMILARITY INDICES;

ALGORITHMS; INFERENCE ENGINES;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA DQB1 ANTIGEN;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALGORITHMS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; HAPLOTYPES; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 41049111019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-9-68     Document Type: Article

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