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The choice of null distributions for detecting gene-gene interactions in genome-wide association studies.
BMC bioinformatics - 15 Feb 2011
Yang Can, Wan Xiang, He Zengyou, Yang Qiang, Xue Hong, Yu Weichuan
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: In genome-wide association studies (GWAS), the number of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) typically ranges between 500,000 and 1,000,000. Accordingly, detecting gene-gene interactions in GWAS is computationally challenging because it involves hundreds of billions of SNP pairs. Stage-wise strategies are often used to overcome the computational difficulty. In the first stage, fast screening...
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