Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) as a knowledgebase for human developmental disorders

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 253-266

  Boyadjiev, SA ^a   Jabs, EW ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth defect; Developmental biology; Genetic databases; Human genes; Malformation; Mouse models

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENZYME; RECEPTOR; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELE; BONE DYSPLASIA; DATA BASE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA REPAIR; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EYE DISEASE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INHERITANCE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENT DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN DISEASE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENES; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 0034056133     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0004.2000.570403.x     Document Type: Review

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