Method
Finding disease candidate genes by liquid association
1 Department of Statistics, UCLA, 8125 Math Sciences Bldg, Los Angeles, California 90095-1554, USA
2 Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Academia Road, Nankang, Taipei 115, Taiwan
3 The Finnish Genome Center and Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Haartmaninkatu, 00290 Helsinki, Finland
4 The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
5 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Gonda Researach Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095-1766, USA
6 Department of Human Genetics, UCLA, 695 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, California 90095-1766, USA
7 National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland, Biomedicum Helsinki, Haartmaninkatu, 00290 Helsinki, Finland
8 Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Biomedicum Helsinki, Haartmaninkatu, 00290 Helsinki, Finland
Genome Biology 2007, 8:R205 doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-10-r205
Published: 4 October 2007Abstract
A novel approach to finding candidate genes by using gene expression data through liquid association is developed and used to identify multiple sclerosis susceptibility candidate genes.
