Parallel and serial computing tools for testing single-locus and epistatic SNP effects of quantitative traits in genome-wide association studies

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ma, Li ^a   Runesha, H Birali ^a   Dvorkin, Daniel ^a   Garbe, John R ^a   Da, Yang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING TOOLS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOTYPIC EFFECTS; LARGE-SCALE ANALYSIS; PARALLEL COMPUTING PLATFORM; QUANTITATIVE TRAITS; SERIAL COMPUTING; SINGLE-NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM MARKERS;

GENES; HARDWARE; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; TOOLS;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MODEL; GENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENOMICS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SOFTWARE;

EID: 49049108362     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-9-315     Document Type: Article

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