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An Evaluation of Gene Module Concepts in the Interpretation of Gene Expression Data

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This study was supported in part by a fellowship award from the China Scholarship Council (X.Z.) and NIH grant GM 59507 (H.Z.).

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    Xianghua Zhang

  2. Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA

    Xianghua Zhang & Hongyu Zhao

  3. Department of Genetics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA

    Hongyu Zhao

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Zhang, X., Zhao, H. (2010). An Evaluation of Gene Module Concepts in the Interpretation of Gene Expression Data. In: Feng, J., Fu, W., Sun, F. (eds) Frontiers in Computational and Systems Biology. Computational Biology, vol 15. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-196-7_17

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