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BMCBI
2011
14 years 10 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
14 years 6 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
14 years 6 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
14 years 6 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
14 years 6 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...