CASMAP: detection of statistically significant combinations of SNPs in association mapping


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2019-08-01

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Combinatorial association mapping aims to assess the statistical association of higher-order interactions of genetic markers with a phenotype of interest. This article presents combinatorial association mapping (CASMAP), a software package that leverages recent advances in significant pattern mining to overcome the statistical and computational challenges that have hindered combinatorial association mapping. CASMAP can be used to perform region-based association studies and to detect higher-order epistatic interactions of genetic variants. Most importantly, unlike other existing significant pattern mining-based tools, CASMAP allows for the correction of categorical covariates such as age or gender, making it suitable for genome-wide association studies.

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35 (15)

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2680 - 2682

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Oxford University Press

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09486 - Borgwardt, Karsten M. (ehemalig) / Borgwardt, Karsten M. (former) check_circle

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