The statistical properties of gene-set analysis

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 353-364

  De Leeuw, Christiaan A ^a,b   Neale, Benjamin M ^c,d   Heskes, Tom ^b   Posthuma, Danielle ^a,e  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC MODEL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICS; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GENOMICS; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84963595642     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg.2016.29     Document Type: Article

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