A Markov blanket-based method for detecting causal SNPs in GWAS

Background: Detecting epistatic interactions associated with complex and common diseases can help to improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of these diseases. With the development of genome-wide association studies (GWAS), designing powerful and robust computational method for identifying epistatic interactions associated with common diseases becomes a great challenge to bioinformatics society, because the study of epistatic interactions often deals with the large size of the genotyped data and the huge amount of combinations of all the possible genetic factors. Most existing computational detection methods are based on the classification capacity of SNP sets, which may fail to identify SNP sets that are strongly associated with the diseases and introduce a lot of false positives. In addition, most methods are not suitable for genome-wide scale studies due to their computational complexity. Results: We propose a new Markov Blanket-based method, DASSO-MB (Detection of ASSOciations...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: BMCBI
• Authors: Bing Han, Meeyoung Park, Xue-wen Chen
• Keywords: BMCBI 2010, Diseases, Epistatic Interactions, False Positives