Genetical genomics is a very powerful tool to elucidate the basis of …

• Abstract
• Background
• Results and Discussion
• Conclusion
• Methods
• Abbreviations
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Abbreviations

AUC: Area under a receiver operating characteristic curve; QTL (eQTL): (expression) quantitative trait locus; RFE, Recursive Feature Elinitaion; SVM: support vector machine.

Authors' contributions

MPE conceived the research, all performed research, MPE and AB wrote the paper. All authors read and approved the manuscript.

Acknowledgements

We thank the authors Chesler and colleagues, especially Rob W. Williams, for making their data publicly available. We are also grateful to the referees for their suggestions. Work funded by grants AGL2004-0103, GEN2003-20658 and TIN2005-08288 (Ministry of Education, Spain).