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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2020

Toxo: a library for calculating penetrance tables of high-order epistasis models.

Christian Ponte-Fernández, Jorge González-Domínguez, Antonio Carvajal-Rodríguez, María J Martín

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Christian Ponte-FernándezUniversidade da Coruña, CITIC, Computer Architecture Group, Facultad de Informática, A Coruña, 15071, Spain. christian.ponte@udc.es.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4728-6398
Jorge González-DomínguezUniversidade da Coruña, CITIC, Computer Architecture Group, Facultad de Informática, A Coruña, 15071, Spain.
Antonio Carvajal-RodríguezDepartamento de Bioquímica, Genética e Inmunología y Centro de Investigación Mariña (CIMUVIGO), Universidad de Vigo, Vigo, 36310, Spain.
María J MartínUniversidade da Coruña, CITIC, Computer Architecture Group, Facultad de Informática, A Coruña, 15071, Spain.
Universidade da Coruña · ESUniversidade de Vigo · ES

Funding

Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Ordenación Universitaria, Xunta de Galicia ED431C 2017/04Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad TIN2016-75845-PMinisterio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte FPU16/01333Xunta de Galicia ED431G2019/01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundEpistasis is defined as the interaction between different genes when expressing a specific phenotype. The most common way to characterize an epistatic relationship is using a penetrance table, which contains the probability of expressing the phenotype under study given a particular allele combination. Available simulators can only create penetrance tables for well-known epistasis models involving a small number of genes and under a large number of limitations.

resultsToxo is a MATLAB library designed to calculate penetrance tables of epistasis models of any interaction order which resemble real data more closely. The user specifies the desired heritability (or prevalence) and the program maximizes the table's prevalence (or heritability) according to the input epistatic model boundaries.

conclusionsToxo extends the capabilities of existing simulators that define epistasis using penetrance tables. These tables can be directly used as input for software simulators such as GAMETES so that they are able to generate data samples with larger interactions and more realistic prevalences/heritabilities.

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Epistasis, GeneticUser-Computer InterfaceGenotypeModels, GeneticPenetrancePhenotypeEpistasis modelGene interactionHeritabilityPenetrancePrevalenceSimulation

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