PEPIS: A Pipeline for Estimating Epistatic Effects in Quantitative Trait Locus Mapping and Genome-Wide Association Studies.

The term epistasis refers to interactions between multiple genetic loci. Genetic epistasis is important in regulating biological function and is considered to explain part of the 'missing heritability,' which involves marginal genetic effects that cannot be accounted for in genome-wide ass...

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Main Authors: Wenchao Zhang, Xinbin Dai, Qishan Wang, Shizhong Xu, Patrick X Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-05-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4880203?pdf=render