Utility of correlation measures in analysis of gene expression

Anthony Almudevar1, Lev B Klebanov, Xing Qiu

  • 1Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, New York 14642, USA. Andrei_Yakovlev@urmc.rochester.edu

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