GCTA

Description

gcta website  

GCTA (Genome-wide Complex Trait Analysis) was originally designed to estimate the proportion of phenotypic variance explained by genome- or chromosome-wide SNPs for complex traits (the GREML method), and has subsequently extended for many other analyses to better understand the genetic architecture of complex traits.

Required Modules

Serial

• gcta

System Variables

• HPC_{{#uppercase:gcta}}_DIR - installation directory

Citation

If you publish research that uses gcta you have to cite it as follows:

Yang J, Lee SH, Goddard ME and Visscher PM. GCTA: a tool for Genome-wide Complex Trait Analysis. Am J Hum Genet. 2011 Jan 88(1): 76-82. PubMed ID: 21167468