Selecting causal genes from genome-wide association studies via functionally coherent subnetworks

Nature Methods

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 154-159

  Taşan, Murat ^a,b,c,d   Musso, Gabriel ^e,f   Hao, Tong ^c,e   Vidal, Marc ^c,e   Macrae, Calum A ^e,f   Roth, Frederick P ^a,b,c,d,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; COFUNCTION NETWORK; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CROHN DISEASE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLIOMA; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; IRRITABLE COLON; LUNG CANCER; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; STOMACH CANCER; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; TUMOR GENE; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; NEOPLASM; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENES, NEOPLASM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84926147304     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.3215     Document Type: Article

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