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A fast and powerful W-test for pairwise epistasis testing.
Nucleic acids research - 8 Jul 2016
Wang Maggie Haitian, Sun Rui, Guo Junfeng, Weng Haoyi, Lee Jack, Hu Inchi, Sham Pak Chung, Zee Benny Chung-Ying
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Epistasis plays an essential role in the development of complex diseases. Interaction methods face common challenge of seeking a balance between persistent power, model complexity, computation efficiency, and validity of identified bio-markers. We introduce a novel W-test to identify pairwise epistasis effect, which measures the distributional difference between cases and controls through a combined log odds...
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