A comparison of methods sensitive to interactions with small main effects

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 303-311

  Culverhouse, Robert C ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epistasis; Missing heritability; Multifactor dimensionality reduction (MDR); Restricted partition method (RPM); Simulated data; Support vector machine (SVM)

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MULTIFACTOR DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION; RESTRICTED PARTITION METHOD; SIMULATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

ALGORITHMS; ALLELES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIFACTOR DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84860351722     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.21622     Document Type: Article

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