Detection of allele-specific methylation through a generalized heterogeneous epigenome model

Bioinformatics

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Peng, Qian ^a,b   Ecker, Joseph R ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METHODOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84863526666     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts231     Document Type: Article

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