A method for identifying haplotypes carrying the causative allele in positive natural selection and genome-wide association studies

Bioinformatics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 822-828

  Ong, Rick Twee Hee ^a   Liu, Xuanyao ^a   Poh, Wan Ting ^a   Sim, Xueling ^a   Chia, Kee Seng ^a   Teo, Yik Ying ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC SELECTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALGORITHMS; ALLELES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79952593022     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr007     Document Type: Article

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