Utilizing mutual information for detecting rare and common variants associated with a categorical trait

Background. Genome-wide association studies have succeeded in detecting novel common variants which associate with complex diseases. As a result of the fast changes in next generation sequencing technology, a large number of sequencing data are generated, which offers great opportunities to identify...

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Main Authors: Leiming Sun, Chan Wang, Yue-Qing Hu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2016-06-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/2139.pdf