EQTL epistasis: Detecting epistatic effects and inferring hierarchical relationships of genes in biological pathways

Bioinformatics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 656-664

  Kang, Mingon ^a   Zhang, Chunling ^b   Chun, Hyung Wook ^c   Ding, Chris ^a   Liu, Chunyu ^b   Gao, Jean ^a  

^a University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPISTASIS; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENES; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84928994263     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu727     Document Type: Article

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