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Using information interaction to discover epistatic effects in complex diseases.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Anunciação Orlando, Vinga Susana, Oliveira Arlindo L
Abstract excerpt
It is widely agreed that complex diseases are typically caused by the joint effects of multiple instead of a single genetic variation. These genetic variations may show stronger effects when considered together than when considered individually, a phenomenon known as epistasis or multilocus interaction. In this work, we explore the applicability of information interaction to discover pairwise epistatic effects...
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