EPS: An empirical Bayes approach to integrating pleiotropy and tissue-specific information for prioritizing risk genes

Bioinformatics

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1856-1864

  Liu, Jin ^a   Wan, Xiang ^b   Ma, Shuangge ^c   Yang, Can ^b  

^a DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; RISK; SOFTWARE;

BAYES THEOREM; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; RISK; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84976485236     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw081     Document Type: Article

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