Genetic association studies: An information content perspective

Current Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 566-573

  Wu, Cen ^a   Li, Shaoyu ^b   Cui, Yuehua ^a,c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Conditional entropy; Entropy; Epistasis; Gene centric analysis; Haplotype analysis; Mutual information; Single nucleotide polymorphism; Synergistic effect

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 84867777286     PISSN: 13892029     EISSN: 18755488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138920212803251382     Document Type: Review

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