PBOOST: A GPU-based tool for parallel permutation tests in genome-wide association studies

Bioinformatics

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1460-1462

  Yang, Guangyuan ^a   Jiang, Wei ^a   Yang, Qiang ^a   Yu, Weichuan ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84941742861     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu840     Document Type: Article

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