Comparison of methods for competitive tests of pathway analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Evangelou, Marina ^a   Rendon, Augusto ^a,b,c   Ouwehand, Willem H ^b,c,d   Wernisch, Lorenz ^a   Dudbridge, Frank ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT   (United Kingdom)

^d WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; COLLAGEN; FIBRINOGEN; PADGEM PROTEIN; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ADAPTIVE RANK TRUNCATED PRODUCT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; FISHER METHOD; GENE SET ENRICHMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERGEOMETRIC TEST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PATHWAY ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; POWER OF A TEST; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAIL STRENGTH MEASURE; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD PLATELETS; BODY MASS INDEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84864422902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041018     Document Type: Article

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