A probabilistic method for identifying rare variants underlying complex traits

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wang, Jiayin ^b   Zhao, Zhongmeng ^a   Cao, Zhi ^a   Yang, Aiyuan ^a   Zhang, Jin ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HIDDEN MARKOV RANDOM FIELD MODEL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MACHINE LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHENOTYPE; PROBABILITY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTERNET;

GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MARKOV CHAINS; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84881298161     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-S1-S11     Document Type: Article

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