Article
Performance of epistasis detection methods in semi-simulated GWAS.
BMC bioinformatics - 18 Jun 2018
Chatelain Clément, Durand Guillermo, Thuillier Vincent, Augé Franck
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Part of the missing heritability in Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) is expected to be explained by interactions between genetic variants, also called epistasis. Various statistical methods have been developed to detect epistasis in case-control GWAS. These methods face major statistical challenges due to the number of tests required, the complexity of the Linkage Disequilibrium (LD) structure,...
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