The application of Pittsburgh-style learning classifier systems to address genetic heterogeneity and epistasis in association studies

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6238 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 404-413

  Urbanowicz, Ryan J ^a   Moore, Jason H ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epistasis; GALE; GAssist; Genetic Algorithm; Genetic Heterogeneity; Learning Classifier System; SNP

Indexed keywords

EPISTASIS; GALE; GASSIST; GENETIC HETEROGENEITIES; LEARNING CLASSIFIER SYSTEM; SNP;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; BIOINFORMATICS; CLASSIFIERS; GENES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 78149242122     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15844-5_41     Document Type: Conference Paper

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