Highlighted articles on the cover of the December 2008 issue:

Title: Direct functional assessment of the composite phenotype through multivariate projection strategies
Authors: Ana Conesa, Rasmus Bro, Francisco Garcia-Garcia, Jose Manuel Prats, Stefan Gotz, Karin Kjeldahl, David Montaner, and Joaquin Dopazo
Pages: 373-383
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2008.05.015

Title: Finding common genes in multiple cancer types through meta-analysis of microarray experiments: A rank aggregation approach
Authors: V. Pihur, Somnath Datta, and Susmita Datta
Pages:  400-403
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2008.05.003

Title: Analysis of human disease genes in the context of gene essentiality
Authors: Donghyun Park, Jungsun Park, Seung Gu Park, Taesung Park, and Sun Shim Choi
Pages: 414-418
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2008.08.001

Title: Optimal designs for estimating and testing interaction among multiple loci in complex traits by a Gibbs sampler
Authors: Chaeyoung Lee and Younyoung Kim
Pages: 446-451
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2008.08.006