Disentangling molecular relationships with a causal inference test.

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Published in BMC Genet on May 27, 2009

Authors

Joshua Millstein1, Bin Zhang, Jun Zhu, Eric E Schadt

Author Affiliations

1: Genetics Department, Rosetta Inpharmatics, LLC, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA. joshua_millstein@merck.com

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