Genotype-phenotype map characteristics of an in silico heart cell

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 2 DEC, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Vik, Jon Olav ^a   Gjuvsland, Arne B ^a   Li, Liren ^b   Tøndel, Kristin ^a   Niederer, Steven ^c   Smith, Nicolas P ^b,c   Hunter, Peter J ^d   Omholt, Stig W ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Causally cohesive genotype phenotype modeling; cGP heart model; Epistasis; Multivariate genotype to phenotype map; Penetrance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861109416     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2011.00106     Document Type: Article

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