A Robust multifactor dimensionality reduction method for detecting gene-gene interactions with application to the genetic analysis of bladder cancer susceptibility

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 20-28

  Gui, Jiang ^a   Andrew, Angeline S ^a   Andrews, Peter ^a   Nelson, Heather M ^g   Kelsey, Karl T ^e   Karagas, Margaret R ^a   Moore, Jason H ^a,b,c,d,f  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^c University of Vermont   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data mining; Epistasis; Machine learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; FISHER EXACT TEST; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBUST MULTIFACTOR DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION METHOD; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; NEW HAMPSHIRE; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 78650115977     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2010.00624.x     Document Type: Article

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