An algorithm for learning maximum entropy probability models of disease risk that efficiently searches and sparingly encodes multilocus genomic interactions
Author(s) -
David J. Miller,
Yanxin Zhang,
Guoqiang Yu,
Yongmei Liu,
Li Chen,
Carl D. Langefeld,
David M. Herrington,
Yue Wang
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp435
Subject(s) - computer science , genome wide association study , principle of maximum entropy , single nucleotide polymorphism , computational biology , support vector machine , bayes' theorem , bayesian probability , feature selection , machine learning , artificial intelligence , biology , genetics , genotype , gene
In both genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and pathway analysis, the modest sample size relative to the number of genetic markers presents formidable computational, statistical and methodological challenges for accurately identifying markers/interactions and for building phenotype-predictive models.
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