BiForce Toolbox: Powerful high-throughput computational analysis of gene-gene interactions in genome-wide association studies

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue W1, 2012, Pages

  Gyenesei, Attila ^a   Moody, Jonathan ^b   Laiho, Asta ^a   Semple, Colin A M ^b   Haley, Chris S ^b   Wei, Wen Hua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EPISTASIS; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; INTERNET; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84864431927     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks550     Document Type: Article

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