Methods for population-based eQTL analysis in human genetics

Tsinghua Science and Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 624-634

  Tian, Lu ^a   Quitadamo, Andrew ^a   Lin, Frederick ^a   Shi, Xinghua ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

confounding factors; expression Quantitative Trait Loci (eQTL) analysis; Lasso; sparse learning models

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; GENES;

ASSOCIATION METHODS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS; GENETIC VARIANTS; GENETIC VARIATION; LASSO; LEARNING MODELS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; STATISTICAL LEARNING METHODS;

GENE EXPRESSION;

EID: 84920736982     PISSN: 10070214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TST.2014.6961031     Document Type: Article

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