biMM: efficient estimation of genetic variances and covariances for cohorts with high-dimensional phenotype measurements.

Pirinen, Matti; Benner, Christian; Marttinen, Pekka; Järvelin, Marjo-Riitta; Rivas, Manuel A; Ripatti, Samuli · Bioinformatics · 2017

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SUMMARY: Genetic research utilizes a decomposition of trait variances and covariances into genetic and environmental parts. Our software package biMM is a computationally efficient implementation of a bivariate linear mixed model for settings where hundreds of traits have been measured on partially overlapping sets of individuals. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Implementation in R freely available at www.iki.fi/mpirinen . CONTACT: matti.pirinen@helsinki.fi. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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