ViSEN: Methodology and software for visualization of statistical epistasis networks

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 283-285

  Hu, Ting ^a,b   Chen, Yuanzhu ^c   Kiralis, Jeff W ^a   Moore, Jason H ^a,b  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complex diseases; Epistasis; Gene gene interaction; Genome wide association; High order interaction; Networks; Software; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; METHODOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84875648979     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.21718     Document Type: Article

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