Detection of cis-acting regulatory SNPs using allelic expression data

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 515-525

  Xiao, Rui ^a,b   Scott, Laura J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Allelic expression imbalance; CDNA; Cis acting regulatory SNP; Genomic DNA; Likelihood ratio test; Linkage phase; Mixture model; Parametric bootstrap

Indexed keywords

ALLELIC EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STUDENT T TEST;

ALLELES; ALLELIC IMBALANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 80051803605     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20601     Document Type: Article

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