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BMCBI
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Identifying hypermethylated CpG islands using a quantile regression model
Background: DNA methylation has been shown to play an important role in the silencing of tumor suppressor genes in various tumor types. In order to have a system-wide understandin...
Shuying Sun, Zhengyi Chen, Pearlly Yan, Yi-Wen Hua...
BMCBI
2011
12 years 11 months ago
A hierarchical Bayesian network approach for linkage disequilibrium modeling and data-dimensionality reduction prior to genome-w
Background: Discovering the genetic basis of common genetic diseases in the human genome represents a public health issue. However, the dimensionality of the genetic data (up to 1...
Raphael Mourad, Christine Sinoquet, Philippe Leray
BMCBI
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Robust joint analysis allowing for model uncertainty in two-stage genetic association studies
Background: The cost efficient two-stage design is often used in genome-wide association studies (GWASs) in searching for genetic loci underlying the susceptibility for complex di...
Dongdong Pan, Qizhai Li, Ningning Jiang, Aiyi Liu,...
BMCBI
2011
12 years 11 months ago
CLOTU: An online pipeline for processing and clustering of 454 amplicon reads into OTUs followed by taxonomic annotation
Background: The implementation of high throughput sequencing for exploring biodiversity poses high demands on bioinformatics applications for automated data processing. Here we in...
Surendra Kumar, Tor Carlsen, Bjørn-Helge Me...
BMCBI
2011
12 years 11 months ago
ShoRAH: estimating the genetic diversity of a mixed sample from next-generation sequencing data
Background: With next-generation sequencing technologies, experiments that were considered prohibitive only a few years ago are now possible. However, while these technologies hav...
Osvaldo Zagordi, Arnab Bhattacharya, Nicholas Erik...