Searching for genetic determinants in the new millennium

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6788, 2000, Pages 847-856

  Risch, Neil J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA SEQUENCE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MODEL; HISTORY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETICS, MEDICAL; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS;

EID: 0034660559     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35015718     Document Type: Review

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