To cite the package 'kangar00' itself use:

Manitz J, Friedrichs S, Burger P, Hofner B, Ha NT, Freytag S, Bickeboeller H (2020). kangar00: Kernel Approaches for Nonlinear Genetic Association Regression. R package version 1.4, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=kangar00.

The size-adjusted kernel function is introduced in:

Freytag S, Bickeboeller H, Amos CI, Kneib T, Schlather M (2012). “A Novel Kernel for Correcting Size Bias in the Logistic Kernel Machine Test with an Application to Rheumatoid Arthritis.” Human Heredity, 74, 97–108.

The network-based kernel function is introduced in:

Freytag S, Manitz J, Schlather M, Kneib T, Amos CI, Risch A, Chang-Claude J, Heinrich J, Bickeboeller H (2013). “A Network-Based Kernel Machine Test for the Identifcation of Risk Pathways in Genome-Wide Association Studies.” Human Heredity, 76, 64–75.

The kernel boosting method is introduced in:

Friedrichs S, Manitz J, Burger P, Amos CI, Risch A, Chang-Claude J, Wichmann H, Kneib T, Bickeboeller H, Hofner B (2017). “Pathway-Based Kernel Boosting for the Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies.” Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, 2017, 1-17. doi: 10.1155/2017/6742763.

Use ‘toBibtex(citation("kangar00"))’ to extract BibTeX references.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Manual{,
    title = {{kangar00}: Kernel Approaches for Nonlinear Genetic
      Association Regression},
    author = {Juliane Manitz and Stefanie Friedrichs and Patricia
      Burger and Benjamin Hofner and Ngoc Thuy Ha and Saskia Freytag
      and Heike Bickeboeller},
    year = {2020},
    note = {{R} package version 1.4},
    url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=kangar00},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {A Novel Kernel for Correcting Size Bias in the Logistic
      Kernel Machine Test with an Application to Rheumatoid
      Arthritis.},
    author = {Saskia Freytag and Heike Bickeboeller and Christopher I
      Amos and Thomas Kneib and Martin Schlather},
    journal = {Human Heredity},
    year = {2012},
    volume = {74},
    pages = {97--108},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {A Network-Based Kernel Machine Test for the Identifcation
      of Risk Pathways in Genome-Wide Association Studies.},
    author = {Saskia Freytag and Juliane Manitz and Martin Schlather
      and Thomas Kneib and Christopher I Amos and Angela Risch and
      Jenny Chang-Claude and Joachim Heinrich and Heike Bickeboeller},
    journal = {Human Heredity},
    year = {2013},
    volume = {76},
    pages = {64--75},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {Pathway-Based Kernel Boosting for the Analysis of
      Genome-Wide Association Studies.},
    author = {Stefanei Friedrichs and Juliane Manitz and Patricia
      Burger and Christopher I Amos and Angela Risch and Jenny
      Chang-Claude and Heinz-Erich Wichmann and Thomas Kneib and Heike
      Bickeboeller and Benjamin Hofner},
    year = {2017},
    volume = {2017},
    issue = {6742763},
    pages = {1-17},
    doi = {10.1155/2017/6742763},
    journal = {Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine},
  }