Incorporating genetic similarity of auxiliary samples into eGene identification under the transfer learning framework.

"the code for implementing the hypothesis test of tlegene is freely available at https://github com/biostatpzeng/tlegene ."

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"Funding The research of Ping Zeng was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (82173630 and 81402765), the Youth Foundation of Humanity and Social Science funded by Ministry of Education of China (18YJC910002), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China (BK20181472), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2018M630607 and 2019T120465), the QingLan Research Project of Jiangsu Province for Young and Middle-aged Academic Leaders, the Six-Talent Peaks Project in Jiangsu Province of China (WSN-087), and the Training Project for Youth Teams of Science and Technology Innovation at Xuzhou Medical University (TD202008). The research of Shuo Zhang was supported in part by Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (KYCX22_2960)."