Comparison of strategies to detect epistasis from eQTL data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Kapur, Karen ^a,b   Schüpbach, Thierry ^b   Xenarios, Ioannis ^b   Kutalik, Zoltán ^a,b   Bergmann, Sven ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISTASIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; YEAST; BIOLOGY; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETICS; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 83655198250     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028415     Document Type: Article

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