An efficient and scalable implementation of SNP-pair interaction testing for genetic association studies

IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing Workshops and Phd Forum

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 523-530

  Koesterke, Lars ^a   Stanzione, Dan ^a   Vaughn, Matt ^a   Welch, Stephen M ^b   Kusnierczyk, Waclaw ^b   Yang, Jinliang ^c   Yeh, Cheng Ting ^c   Nettleton, Dan ^c   Schnable, Patrick S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EQTL; Gene expression; Parallel; Trait

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONALLY INTENSIVE PROBLEMS; EQTL; FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM; GENETIC MARKERS; INTERACTION TESTING; PAIRWISE INTERACTION; PARALLEL; PARALLELIZATIONS; PLANT BREEDING; QUANTITATIVE TRAITS; SCALABLE APPROACH; SCALABLE IMPLEMENTATION; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STATISTICAL CORRELATION; TRAIT;

AGRICULTURE; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; GENE EXPRESSION; PLANTS (BOTANY);

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS;

EID: 81355135571     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2011.190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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