Selecting causal genes from genome-wide association studies via functionally coherent subnetworks

Murat Taşan; Gabriel Musso; Tong Hao; Marc Vidal; Calum A. MacRae; Frederick P. Roth

doi:10.1038/nmeth.3215

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Genome-wide association studyBiologyGeneGenomeGeneticsComputational biologyGenetic associationHuman genomeCandidate geneSingle-nucleotide polymorphismGenotype

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Year: 2014
Type: article
Volume: 12
Issue: 2
Pages: 154-159
Citations: 96
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                                    Murat Taşan, 
                                
                                    Gabriel Musso, 
                                
                                    Tong Hao
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2014). 
                            Selecting causal genes from genome-wide association studies via functionally coherent subnetworks. 
                            Nature Methods
                            , 12
                            (2)
                            , 154-159.
                            https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3215
                        

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DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.3215