Performance of epistasis detection methods in semi-simulated GWAS

Abstract Background Part of the missing heritability in Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) is expected to be explained by interactions between genetic variants, also called epistasis. Various statistical methods have been developed to detect epistasis in case-control GWAS. These methods face maj...

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Main Authors: Clément Chatelain, Guillermo Durand, Vincent Thuillier, Franck Augé
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-06-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-018-2229-8