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• Title: Blockwise Approach using Linkage Disequilibrium information
• Language: R
• Description: Functions for the Genome-Wide Association Studies including simulation of SNPs data, constrained hierarchical clustering using Linkage Disequilibrium (LD) measures, the Gap statistic to find the optimal number of clusters, and statistical regression models for SNP selection (Univariate, Lasso, Group Lasso, Elastic-Net).
• Authors: Alia Dehman and Pierre Neuvial
• Maintainer: Alia Dehman
• Availability: Download BALD v0.2.1.
• References: Dehman, A., Ambroise, C., & Neuvial, P. (2015). Performance of a blockwise approach in variable selection using linkage disequilibrium information. BMC bioinformatics, 16(1), 148.

The constrained hierarchical clustering approach implemented in BALD is now available in a dedicated package called adjclust and available from CRAN: https://cloud.r-project.org/package=adjclust