On the hypothesis-free testing of metabolite ratios in genome-wide and metabolome-wide association studies

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Petersen, Ann Kristin ^a   Krumsiek, Jan ^a   Wägele, Brigitte ^a,b   Theis, Fabian J ^a   Wichmann, H Erich ^a,c,d   Gieger, Christian ^a   Suhre, Karsten ^a,c,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Genome wide association studies; GWAS; Metabolome wide association studies; Metabolomics; MWAS; P gain

Indexed keywords

GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GWAS; METABOLOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES; METABOLOMICS; MWAS; P-GAIN;

GENES; METABOLISM; METABOLITES;

BIOMOLECULES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MALE; METABOLOME; STATISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLOME;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84861810217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-120     Document Type: Article

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