Identification and validation of copy number variants using SNP genotyping arrays from a large clinical cohort

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Valsesia, Armand ^a,b,c   Stevenson, Brian J ^b,c   Waterworth, Dawn ^d   Mooser, Vincent ^d,e   Vollenweider, Peter ^e   Waeber, Gérard ^e   Jongeneel, C V ^b,c,f   Beckmann, Jacques S ^a,e   Kutalik, Zoltán ^a,b   Bergmann, Sven ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^c LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^d GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^e LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; COHORT STUDIES; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84862167313     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-241     Document Type: Article

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