Background: Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is widely being used for population genetics, forensic DNA fingerprinting and clinical disease association studies. The recent past has uncov...
Background: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) based on single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) revolutionized our perception of the genetic regulation of complex traits and di...
In this work, a new learning paradigm called target selection is proposed, which can be used to test for associations between a single genetic variable and a multidimensional, qua...
Johannes Mohr, Sambu Seo, Imke Puis, Andreas Heinz...
— Genetic algorithms (GAs) have been argued to constitute a flexible search thereby enabling to solve difficult problems which classical optimization methodologies may find ha...
Jose M. Cabello, Jose M. Cejudo, Mariano Luque, Fr...
Background: Population structure is an important cause leading to inconsistent results in population-based association studies (PBAS) of human diseases. Various statistical method...