The most informative spacing test effectively discovers biologically relevant outliers or multiple modes in expression

Bioinformatics

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1400-1408

  Pawlikowska, Iwona ^a,b   Wu, Gang ^a   Edmonson, Michael ^a   Liu, Zhifa ^a   Gruber, Tanja ^a   Zhang, Jinghui ^a   Pounds, Stan ^a  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMETRY; CHILD; EXON; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; BIOMETRY; CHILD; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84900794420     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu039     Document Type: Article

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