Phenotypes and Genotypes: The Search for Influential Genes
Phenotypes and Genotypes: The Search for Influential Genes (Computational Biology) by Florian Frommlet, Malgorzata Bogdan, David Ramsey
2016 | ISBN: 144715309X | English | 222 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
2016 | ISBN: 144715309X | English | 222 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This timely text presents a comprehensive guide to genetic association, a new and rapidly expanding field that aims to elucidate how our genetic code (genotypes) influences the traits we possess (phenotypes). The book provides a detailed review of methods of gene mapping used in association with experimental crosses, as well as genome-wide association studies. Emphasis is placed on model selection procedures for analyzing data from large-scale genome scans based on specifically designed modifications of the Bayesian information criterion. Features: presents a thorough introduction to the theoretical background to studies of genetic association (both genetic and statistical); reviews the latest advances in the field; illustrates the properties of methods for mapping quantitative trait loci using computer simulations and the analysis of real data; discusses open challenges; includes an extensive statistical appendix as a reference for those who are not totally familiar with the fundamentals of statistics.