Gene, Environment and Methylation (GEM): A tool suite to efficiently navigate large scale epigenome wide association studies and integrate genotype and interaction between genotype and environment

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Pan, Hong ^a,b   Holbrook, Joanna D ^a   Karnani, Neerja ^a,c   Kwoh, Chee Keong ^b  

^a AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

EWAS; GxE; Matrix operation; MethQTL

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATION; GENES; ITERATIVE METHODS; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METHYLATION;

COMPUTATIONAL CHALLENGES; COMPUTATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS; EWAS; HIGH THROUGHPUT GENOTYPING; MATRIX OPERATIONS; METHQTL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; INTERNET; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ALGORITHMS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENOMICS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; INTERNET; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84979891735     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-016-1161-z     Document Type: Article

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