A combined p-value approach to infer pathway regulations in eQTL mapping

Statistics and its Interface

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 389-402

  Li, Shaoyu ^a   Williams, Barry L ^a   Cui, Yuehua ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene network; Gene regulation; Genetical genomics; Pathway regulation; Satterthwaite's approximation; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864389484     PISSN: 19387989     EISSN: 19387997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/sii.2011.v4.n3.a13     Document Type: Article

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