Detection of determinant genes and diagnostic via Item Response Theory

This work presents a method to analyze characteristics of a set of genes that can have an influence in a certain anomaly, such as a particular type of cancer. A measure is proposed with the objective of diagnosing individuals regarding the anomaly under study and some characteristics of the genes ar...

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Main Authors: Héliton Ribeiro Tavares, Dalton Francisco de Andrade, Carlos Alberto de Bragança Pereira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2004-01-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572004000400033