The issue of suitable similarity measures for a particular kind of genetic data - so called SNP data - arises, e.g., from the GENICA (The Interdisciplinary Study Group on Gene Environmental Interactions and Breast Cancer in Germany) case-control study of sporadic breast cancer. The GENICA study...

The issue of suitable similarity measures for a particular kind of genetic data so called SNP data arises from the GENICA (Interdisciplinary Study Group on Gene Environment Interaction and Breast Cancer in Germany) case-control study of sporadic breast cancer. The GENICA study aims to...