GEWIST-package: Gene Environment Wide Interaction Search Threshold

Description Details Author(s) References

Description

This 'GEWIST' package provides statistical tools to efficiently optimize SNP prioritization for gene-gene and gene-environment interactions.

Details

Package: PathWei
Type: Package
Version: 0.99.z
License: GPL-2
LazyLoad: yes

Author(s)

Wei Q. Deng <dengwq@mcmaster.ca> Guillaume Pare <pareg@mcmaster.ca>

References

Deng W.Q, Pare G. (2011) A fast algorithm to optimize SNP prioritization for gene-gene and gene-environment interactions. Genetic Epidemiology. 35: 729-738. doi: 10.1002/gepi.20624

Pare G, Cook NR, Ridker PM, Chasman DI (2010) On the Use of Variance per Genotype as a Tool to Identify Quantitative Trait Interaction Effects: A Report from the Women's Genome Health Study. PLoS Genet 6(6): e1000981. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000981

Levene H. (1960) Robust tests for equality of variances. In Contributions to Probability and Statistics: Essays in Honor of Harold Hotelling eds:I. Olkin, S.G. Ghurye, W. Hoeffding, W.G. Madow & H.B.Mann, pp.278-292. Stanford: Stanford University Press.


GEWIST documentation built on Nov. 8, 2020, 5:46 p.m.