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Is gene activity in plant cells affected by UMTS-irradiation? A whole genome approach. 植物细胞中的基因活性是否受到umts辐射的影响?全基因组方法。

Advances and Applications in Bioinformatics and Chemistry Pub Date : 2008-01-01 Epub Date: 2008-10-08 DOI: 10.2147/aabc.s3570

Julia C Engelmann, Rosalia Deeken, Tobias Müller, Günter Nimtz, M Rob G Roelfsema, Rainer Hedrich

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引用次数: 10

A simple method for assessing the strength of evidence for association at the level of the whole gene. 一种在整个基因水平上评估关联证据强度的简单方法。

Advances and Applications in Bioinformatics and Chemistry Pub Date : 2008-01-01 Epub Date: 2008-11-17 DOI: 10.2147/aabc.s4095

David Curtis, Anna E Vine, Jo Knight

{"title":"A simple method for assessing the strength of evidence for association at the level of the whole gene.","authors":"David Curtis, Anna E Vine, Jo Knight","doi":"10.2147/aabc.s4095","DOIUrl":"10.2147/aabc.s4095","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: It is expected that different markers may show different patterns of association with different pathogenic variants within a given gene. It would be helpful to combine the evidence implicating association at the level of the whole gene rather than just for individual markers or haplotypes. Doing this is complicated by the fact that different markers do not represent independent sources of information.Method: We propose combining the p values from all single locus and/or multilocus analyses of different markers according to the formula of Fisher, X = ∑(-2ln(p(i))), and then assessing the empirical significance of this statistic using permutation testing. We present an example application to 19 markers around the HTRA2 gene in a case-control study of Parkinson's disease.Results: Applying our approach shows that, although some individual tests produce low p values, overall association at the level of the gene is not supported.Discussion: Approaches such as this should be more widely used in assimilating the overall evidence supporting involvement of a gene in a particular disease. Information can be combined from biallelic and multiallelic markers and from single markers along with multimarker analyses. Single genes can be tested or results from groups of genes involved in the same pathway could be combined in order to test biologically relevant hypotheses. The approach has been implemented in a computer program called COMBASSOC which is made available for downloading.","PeriodicalId":53584,"journal":{"name":"Advances and Applications in Bioinformatics and Chemistry","volume":"1 ","pages":"115-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3169937/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30142649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

A method to enhance the hit ratio by a combination of structure-based drug screening and ligand-based screening. 一种结合基于结构的药物筛选和基于配体的筛选来提高命中率的方法。

Advances and Applications in Bioinformatics and Chemistry Pub Date : 2008-01-01 Epub Date: 2008-08-12 DOI: 10.2147/aabc.s3767

Katsumi Omagari, Daisuke Mitomo, Satoru Kubota, Haruki Nakamura, Yoshifumi Fukunishi

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引用次数: 11

Binarization of medical images based on the recursive application of mean shift filtering : Another algorithm. 基于均值移位滤波递归应用的医学图像二值化:另一种算法。

Advances and Applications in Bioinformatics and Chemistry Pub Date : 2008-01-01 Epub Date: 2008-05-28 DOI: 10.2147/aabc.s3206

Roberto Rodríguez

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引用次数: 18