Boosting signals in gene-based association studies via efficient SNP selection

Briefings in Bioinformatics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 279-291

  Wu, Cen ^a   Cui, Yuehua ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Entropy; Gene centric association; Mutual information; Set based association

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2(I) COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASES; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; NEWBORN; PROCEDURES; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COLLAGEN TYPE I; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; INFORMATION THEORY; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84896468391     PISSN: 14675463     EISSN: 14774054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbs087     Document Type: Article

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