Exploring the performance of multifactor dimensionality reduction in large scale SNP studies and in the presence of genetic heterogeneity among epistatic disease models

Human Heredity

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 183-192

  Edwards, Todd L ^a   Lewis, Kenneth ^a   Velez, Digna R ^a   Dudek, Scott ^a   Ritchie, Marylyn D ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Epistasis; Heterogeneity; MDR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; SAMPLE SIZE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 57449101697     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000181157     Document Type: Article

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