Approaches to allele frequency determination

Pharmacogenomics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 231-235

  Kwok, Pui Yan ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allele frequency; Complex trait analysis; DNA pooling; DNA sequencing; Invader assay; Quantitative PCR; Single nucleotide polymorphisms; Taqman assay

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; HUMAN; REVIEW;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; DNA; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS;

EID: 0034189694     PISSN: 14622416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/14622416.1.2.231     Document Type: Review

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