Modeling causality for pairs of phenotypes in system genetics

Genetics

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1003-1013

  Neto, Elias Chaibub ^a   Broman, Aimee T ^b   Keller, Mark P ^b   Attie, Alan D ^b   Zhang, Bin ^a   Zhu, Jun ^a   Yandell, Brian S ^b  

^a SAGE BIONETWORKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; YEASTS;

EID: 84876452797     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.147124     Document Type: Article

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