Integrating rare-variant testing, function prediction, and gene network in composite resequencing-based genome-wide association studies (CR-GWAS)

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 233-243

  Zhu, Chengsong ^a   Li, Xianran ^a   Yu, Jianming ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Association mapping; Complex trait dissection; Mixed model; Rare allele

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859807430     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.111.000364     Document Type: Article

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