GWAtoolbox: An R package for fast quality control and handling of genome-wide association studies meta-analysis data

Bioinformatics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 444-445

  Fuchsberger, Christian ^a   Taliun, Daniel ^b   Pramstaller, Peter P ^b   Pattaro, Cristian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b University of Lubeck   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HAPLOTYPE MAP; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); QUALITY CONTROL;

GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAPMAP PROJECT; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; QUALITY CONTROL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84856587415     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr679     Document Type: Article

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