Using association rule mining to determine promising secondary phenotyping hypotheses.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Large-scale phenotyping projects such as the Sanger Mouse Genetics project are ongoing efforts to help identify the influences of genes and their modification on phenotypes. Gene-phenotype relations are crucial to the improvement of our understanding of human heritable diseases as well as the development of drugs. However, given that there are ∼: 20 000 genes in higher vertebrate genomes and the experimental verification of gene-phenotype relations requires a lot of resources, methods are needed that determine good candidates for testing.

Results

In this study, we applied an association rule mining approach to the identification of promising secondary phenotype candidates. The predictions rely on a large gene-phenotype annotation set that is used to find occurrenc

SUBMITTER: Oellrich A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4059059 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature