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CASMAP: detection of statistically significant combinations of SNPs in association mapping
Felipe Llinares-López1,2, Laetitia Papaxanthos1,2, Damian Roqueiro1,2
1Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel 4058, Switzerland.
Summary:
Combinatorial association mapping aims to assess the statistical association of higher-order interactions of genetic markers with a phenotype of interest. This article presents combinatorial association mapping (CASMAP), a software package that leverages recent advances in significant pattern mining to overcome the statistical and computational challenges that have hindered combinatorial association mapping. CASMAP can be used to perform region-based association studies and to detect higher-order epistatic interactions of genetic variants. Most importantly, unlike other existing significant pattern mining-based tools, CASMAP allows for the correction of categorical covariates such as age or gender, making it suitable for genome-wide association studies.
Availability And Implementation:
The R and Python packages can be downloaded from our GitHub repository http://github.com/BorgwardtLab/CASMAP. The R package is also available on CRAN.
Supplementary Information:
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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