Context Specific and Differential Gene Co-expression Networks via Bayesian Biclustering

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Gao, Chuan ^a   McDowell, Ian C ^b   Zhao, Shiwen ^b   Brown, Christopher D ^c   Engelhardt, Barbara E ^d  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GENE EXPRESSION; RECOVERY;

BAYESIAN; BICLUSTERING; BIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; CO-EXPRESSION NETWORKS; GENE EXPRESSION DATA; GENOMIC DATA; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL; LATENT STRUCTURES;

TISSUE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BICMIX MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; MOUSE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RNA SEQUENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMOKING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; BREAST TUMOR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES;

BAYES THEOREM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84979971912     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004791     Document Type: Article

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