Beam

Record added by Jurg Ott (the original Rockefeller list)

Bayesian Epistasis Association Mapping

BEAM treats the disease-associated markers and their interactions via a bayesian partitioning model and computes, via Markov chain Monte Carlo, the posterior probability that each marker set is associated with the disease.

• Yu Zhang
• Jun S Liu (Harvard University)

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~junliu/BEAM/

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UNIX, Linux, DOS

Zhang, Liu (2007), “Bayesian inference of epistatic interactions in case-control studies”, Nature, 39:1167-1173.