Proper Use of Allele-Specific Expression Improves Statistical Power for cis-eQTL Mapping with RNA-Seq Data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 110, Issue 511, 2015, Pages 962-974

  Hu, Yi Juan ^a   Sun, Wei ^b   Tzeng, Jung Ying ^c,d   Perou, Charles M ^e  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ASE; EQTL study; Gene expression; Haplotype; Maximum likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946909441     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2015.1038449     Document Type: Article

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