RVTESTS: An efficient and comprehensive tool for rare variant association analysis using sequence data

Bioinformatics

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1423-1426

  Zhan, Xiaowei ^a,b   Hu, Youna ^c   Li, Bingshan ^d   Abecasis, Goncalo R ^e   Liu, Dajiang J ^f  

^a Quantitative Biomedical Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c AMAZON   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; SOFTWARE;

ANIMALS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84966397605     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw079     Document Type: Article

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