MultiMeta: an R package for meta-analyzing multi-phenotype genome-wide association studies
Author(s) -
Dragana Vuckovic,
Paolo Gasparini,
Nicole Soranzo,
Valentina Iotchkova
Publication year - 2015
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/btv222
Subject(s) - r package , computer science , multivariate statistics , genome wide association study , meta analysis , computational biology , data mining , biology , genotype , genetics , programming language , single nucleotide polymorphism , medicine , machine learning , gene
As new methods for multivariate analysis of genome wide association studies become available, it is important to be able to combine results from different cohorts in a meta-analysis. The R package MultiMeta provides an implementation of the inverse-variance-based method for meta-analysis, generalized to an n-dimensional setting.
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