A Statistical Framework for eQTL Mapping Using RNA-seq Data

Biometrics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-11

  Sun, Wei ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Allele specific expression (ASE); EQTL; RNA seq; Total read count (TReC)

Indexed keywords

DNA SEQUENCES; GENE ENCODING; GENE EXPRESSION; MAPPING; MICROARRAYS;

ALLELE-SPECIFIC EXPRESSION; EQTL; MAPPING METHOD; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI MAPPINGS; RNA-SEQ; RNA-SEQ DATUM; STATISTICAL FRAMEWORK; STATISTICAL POWER; TOTAL READ COUNT;

RNA;

BIOMETRY; CHROMOSOME; DATA SET; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; MAPPING; RNA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84856753476     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01654.x     Document Type: Article

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