Monte Carlo simulation of OLS and linear mixed model inference of phenotypic effects on gene expression

Background Self-contained tests estimate and test the association between a phenotype and mean expression level in a gene set defined a priori. Many self-contained gene set analysis methods have been developed but the performance of these methods for phenotypes that are continuous rather than discre...

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Main Author: Jeffrey A. Walker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2016-10-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/2575.pdf