Heading down the wrong pathway: on the influence of correlation within gene sets.

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Published in BMC Genomics on October 18, 2010

Authors

Daniel M Gatti1, William T Barry, Andrew B Nobel, Ivan Rusyn, Fred A Wright

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Environmental Sciences & Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

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