Exploring epistasis in candidate genes for rheumatoid arthritis.

ABSTRACT: The identification of susceptibility genes for common, chronic disease presents great challenges. The development of novel statistical and computational methodologies to help identify these genes is an area of great necessity. Much research is ongoing and the Genetic Analysis Workshop (GAW) is a venue for the dissemination and comparison of many of these methods. GAW15 included real data sets to look for disease susceptibility genes for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). RA is a complex, chronic inflammatory disease with several replicated disease genes, but much of the genetic variation in the phenotype remains unexplained. We applied two computational methods, namely multifactor dimensionality reduction (MDR) and grammatical evolution neural networks (GENN), to three data sets from GAW15. While

SUBMITTER: Ritchie MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2367541 | biostudies-literature | 2007

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature