Background: The majority of common diseases are multi-factorial and modified by genetically and mechanistically complex polygenic interactions and environmental factors. High-thro...
Jing Chen, Huan Xu, Bruce J. Aronow, Anil G. Jegga
Background: Genes that are co-expressed tend to be involved in the same biological process. However, co-expression is not a very reliable predictor of functional links between gen...
Martin Oti, Jeroen van Reeuwijk, Martijn A. Huynen...
Background: Regions of interest identified through genetic linkage studies regularly exceed 30 centimorgans in size and can contain hundreds of genes. Traditionally this number is...
Euan A. Adie, Richard R. Adams, Kathryn L. Evans, ...
Background: Millions of single nucleotide polymorphisms have been identified as a result of the human genome project and the rapid advance of high throughput genotyping technology...
Wei Yu, Anja Wulf, Tiebin Liu, Muin J. Khoury, Mar...
Background: Discovering novel disease genes is still challenging for diseases for which no prior knowledge - such as known disease genes or disease-related pathways - is available...