Iterative sure independence screening EM-Bayesian LASSO algorithm for multi-locus genome-wide association studies.

Genome-wide association study (GWAS) entails examining a large number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in a limited sample with hundreds of individuals, implying a variable selection problem in the high dimensional dataset. Although many single-locus GWAS approaches under polygenic backgrou...

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Main Authors: Cox Lwaka Tamba, Yuan-Li Ni, Yuan-Ming Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005357&type=printable