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Mark D M Leiserson1, Jonathan V Eldridge, Sohini Ramachandran, Benjamin J Raphael.
Abstract
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) identify genetic variants that distinguish a control population from a population with a specific trait. Two challenges in GWAS are: (1) identification of the causal variant within a longer haplotype that is associated with the trait; (2) identification of causal variants for polygenic traits that are caused by variants in multiple genes within a pathway. We review recent methods that use information in protein-protein and protein-DNA interaction networks to address these two challenges.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 24287332 PMCID: PMC3867794 DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2013.09.003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Opin Genet Dev ISSN: 0959-437X Impact factor: 5.578