Are Interactions between cis-Regulatory Variants Evidence for Biological Epistasis or Statistical Artifacts?

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 817-830

  Fish, Alexandra E ^a   Capra, John A ^a,b   Bush, William S ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISTASIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL LINE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ARTIFACT; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CPEB4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTIFACTS; BINDING SITES; DATASETS AS TOPIC; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84991641377     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: 15376605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2016.07.022     Document Type: Article

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