Advances in Bioinformatics
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 719818, 6 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/719818
Research Article

Comparing Quantitative Trait Loci and Gene Expression Data

Bing Han,1 Naomi S. Altman,2 Jessica A. Mong,3,4 Laura Cousino Klein,5 Donald W. Pfaff,4 and David J. Vandenbergh5,6

1RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA 90407, USA
2Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
3Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
4The Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
5Department of Biobehavioral Health, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
6Center for Developmental and Health Genetics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA

Received 18 February 2008; Revised 27 May 2008; Accepted 10 July 2008

Academic Editor: Rainer Spang

Copyright © 2008 Bing Han et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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