eQTL Mapping Using RNA-seq Data

Statistics in Biosciences

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 198-219

  Sun, Wei ^a   Hu, Yijuan ^b  

^a IL   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allele specific gene expression (ASE); Gene expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL); RNA isoform; RNA seq

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALLELE SPECIFIC GENE EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; DATA PROCESSING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84877032773     PISSN: 18671764     EISSN: 18671772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12561-012-9068-3     Document Type: Article

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