Heading Down the Wrong Pathway: On the Influence of Correlation within Gene Sets

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Gatti, Daniel M ^a   Barry, William T ^b   Nobel, Andrew B ^c,d,e   Rusyn, Ivan ^a,e   Wright, Fred A ^d,e  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d IL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC SCREENING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PEER REVIEW; RANDOMIZATION; ANIMAL; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PUBLICATION;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PUBLICATIONS;

EID: 77957889565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-574     Document Type: Article

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