Strategies to identify genes for complex diseases

Annals of Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 493-498

  Zhang, Heping ^a   Zhao, Hongyu ^a   Merikangas, Kathleen ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Association study; Complex diseases; Genetic epidemiology; Linkage analysis; Quantitative traits; Study design

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; DIABETES MELLITUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC LINKAGE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031409994     PISSN: 07853890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07853899709007473     Document Type: Review

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