Data-driven assessment of eQTL mapping methods

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Michaelson, Jacob J ^a   Alberts, Rudi ^b   Schughart, Klaus ^b   Beyer, Andreas ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISTASIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOTYPE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; RANDOM FOREST; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LUNG; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; MUTATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SAMPLE SIZE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LUNG; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SAMPLE SIZE; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 77957342854     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-502     Document Type: Article

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