Deducing corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor type 1 signaling networks from gene expression data by usage of genetic algorithms and graphical Gaussian models

BMC Systems Biology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Trümbach, Dietrich ^b   Graf, Cornelia ^a   Pütz, Benno ^a   Kühne, Claudia ^a   Panhuysen, Marcus ^a   Weber, Peter ^a   Holsboer, Florian ^a   Wurst, Wolfgang ^a,b   Welzl, Gerhard ^b   Deussing, Jan M ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; CRF RECEPTOR TYPE 1;

ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CELL LINE; DATA MINING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA MINING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RATS; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 78349287751     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17520509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-0509-4-159     Document Type: Article

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