BMC Genomics

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Open Access Methodology article

Computational selection and prioritization of candidate genes for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Zané Lombard1, Nicki Tiffin2,3, Oliver Hofmann2, Vladimir B Bajic2, Winston Hide2 and Michèle Ramsay1*

Author Affiliations

1 Division of Human Genetics, National Health Laboratory Service & School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2001, South Africa

2 South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI) Research Group, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, 7530, South Africa

3 Division of Human Genetics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa

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BMC Genomics 2007, 8:389 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-8-389

Published: 25 October 2007

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The 87 top-ranked genes for FAS identified using binary matrix filtering

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Additional file 2:

GO term annotations significantly over-represented among the top-ranked genes. The table provided represent the GO biological process, cellular component and molecular function terms over-represented among the top-ranked genes

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Promoter element binding site analysis. The tables provided represent the promoter elements that have been found in the target promoter set relative to the background promoter set (Table 1) and the pairs of promoter elements at maximum mutual distance of 50 nucleotides (Table 2) that have been found in the target promoter set relative to the background promoter set.

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