SNPselector: a web tool for selecting SNPs for genetic association studies.
Journal Article (Journal Article)
SUMMARY: Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are commonly used for association studies to find genes responsible for complex genetic diseases. With the recent advance of SNP technology, researchers are able to assay thousands of SNPs in a single experiment. But the process of manually choosing thousands of genotyping SNPs for tens or hundreds of genes is time consuming. We have developed a web-based program, SNPselector, to automate the process. SNPselector takes a list of gene names or a list of genomic regions as input and searches the Ensembl genes or genomic regions for available SNPs. It prioritizes these SNPs on their tagging for linkage disequilibrium, SNP allele frequencies and source, function, regulatory potential and repeat status. SNPselector outputs result in compressed Excel spreadsheet files for review by the user. AVAILABILITY: SNPselector is freely available at http://primer.duhs.duke.edu/
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Xu, H; Gregory, SG; Hauser, ER; Stenger, JE; Pericak-Vance, MA; Vance, JM; Züchner, S; Hauser, MA
Published Date
- November 15, 2005
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 21 / 22
Start / End Page
- 4181 - 4186
PubMed ID
- 16179360
Pubmed Central ID
- PMC1361283
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 1367-4803
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti682
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- England