Abstract
MOTIVATION: Identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms that are associated with a phenotype in more than one study is of great scientific interest in the genome-wide association studies (GWAS) research. The empirical Bayes approach for discovering whether results have been replicated across studies was shown to be a reliable method, and close to optimal in terms of power.
RESULTS: The R package repfdr provides a flexible implementation of the empirical Bayes approach for replicability analysis and meta-analysis, to be used when several studies examine the same set of null hypotheses. The usefulness of the package for the GWAS community is discussed.
AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The R package repfdr can be downloaded from CRAN.
CONTACT: [email protected]
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2971-2972 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Bioinformatics |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue number | 20 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 15 Oct 2014 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Statistics and Probability
- Biochemistry
- Molecular Biology
- Computer Science Applications
- Computational Theory and Mathematics
- Computational Mathematics