A series of DNA bases in a chromosome that codes for a poly-peptide sequence.

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paralogue genes in genome-wide association studies?

Has anybody tested if there is an over-representation of significant paralogous copies of genes -- either tandemly-arranged or in different chromosomes -- in the list of significantly associated genes ...
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best known indexing method / transformation to coordinates for gene sequences

What would be the best known method to transform a gene or proteine sequence to some coordinate space (so $t(G)$ is the transformed sequence) complying to following rules: similar sequences ...
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Confusion related to the use of PCA to determine the background network

I was reading this paper related to use of gene expressions for predicting the drug response. I have this confusion, the paper has used PCA on the covariance matrix formed by the genes to get what is ...