FIG. 2.

The flowchart of our method. From a given eQTL data set with genotypes of genetic variants and expression profiles of genes, our method first finds the coefficient of the regularization term, λ, by a 5-fold cross validation. Then, our method samples M models through parameter estimation with different initializations. From the M models, our method finally screens for alternative eQTLs. eQTL, expression quantitative trait locus.