Manhattan Harvester and Cropper: a system for GWAS peak detection

Abstract Background Selection of interesting regions from genome wide association studies (GWAS) is typically performed by eyeballing of Manhattan Plots. This is no longer possible with thousands of different phenotypes. There is a need for tools that can automatically detect genomic regions that co...

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Main Authors: Toomas Haller, Tõnis Tasa, Andres Metspalu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-01-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-019-2600-4