JAG: A computational tool to evaluate the role of gene-sets in complex traits

Genes

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 238-251

  Lips, Esther S ^a   Kooyman, Maarten ^b,c   de Leeuw, Christiaan ^a,d   Posthuma, Danielle ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS BIOINFORMATICS CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biological pathway; Gene set analysis; Genetic association; GWAS; Pathway analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CROHN DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENE SET ANALYSIS; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; POWER ANALYSIS; PROCESS CONTROL; PROCESS DESIGN; QUALITY CONTROL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; WEB BROWSER;

EID: 84930944446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/genes6020238     Document Type: Article

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