On the stability of the Bayenv method in assessing human SNP-environment associations

Human Genomics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Blair, Lily M ^a   Granka, Julie M ^a,b   Feldman, Marcus W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ancestrycom DNA LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental adaptation; Genome wide scans; Human adaptation; Markov chain monte carlo; Natural selection; Positive selection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYENV METHOD; CLIMATE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; LATITUDE; MACHINE LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOLAR RADIATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUMMER; WINTER; BAYES THEOREM; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POPULATION; PROBABILITY;

BAYES THEOREM; ENVIRONMENT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULATION;

EID: 84901027089     PISSN: 14739542     EISSN: 14797364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1479-7364-8-1     Document Type: Article

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