When Is Hub Gene Selection Better than Standard Meta-Analysis?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Langfelder, Peter ^a   Mischel, Paul S ^a   Horvath, Steve ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

AGE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONSENSUS; CONSENSUS NETWORK APPROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SCREENING; HUB GENE SELECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHYLATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS; WEIGHTED CORRELATION NETWORK ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; MALE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84876217807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061505     Document Type: Article

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