Application of the Gini correlation coefficient to infer regulatory relationships in transcriptome analysis

Plant Physiology

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 192-203

  Ma, Chuang ^a   Wang, Xiangfeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84865842920     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.112.201962     Document Type: Article

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