Assessing gene length biases in gene set analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies

International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 297-310

  Jia, Peilin ^a   Tian, Jian ^b   Zhao, Zhongming ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Gene length; Gene set; Genome wide association studies; Gwas; Pathway enrichment analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ERROR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 79751516976     PISSN: 17560756     EISSN: 17560764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCBDD.2010.038394     Document Type: Article

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