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Nicolo Fusi; Oliver Stegle; Neil Lawrence. |
Expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) studies are an integral tool to investigate the genetic component of gene expression variation. A major challenge in the analysis of such studies are hidden confounding factors, such as unobserved covariates or unknown environmental influences. These factors can induce a pronounced artifactual correlation structure in the expression profiles, which may create spurious false associations or mask real genetic association signals. 

Here, we report PANAMA (Probabilistic ANAlysis of genoMic dAta), a novel probabilistic model to account for confounding factors within an
eQTL analysis. In contrast to previous methods, PANAMA learns hidden factors jointly with the... |
Tipo: Manuscript |
Palavras-chave: Genetics & Genomics; Bioinformatics. |
Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/5995/version/1 |
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