GACT: A Genome build and Allele definition Conversion Tool for SNP imputation and meta-analysis in genetic association studies

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Sulovari, Arvis ^a,b   Li, Dawei ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^c University of Vermont   (United States)

Author keywords

Allele definition (nomenclature); Genome build; Genome wide association study (GWAS); Imputation; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PREDICTION; QUALITY CONTROL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; GENOMICS; HUMAN; PROCEDURES;

ALLELES; DATASETS AS TOPIC; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOME; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84907294937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-610     Document Type: Article

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