Rethinking genetic strategies to study complex diseases

Trends in Molecular Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 512-516

  Brookes, Anthony J ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOSTATISTICS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STANDARD; SYNDROME DELINEATION; TECHNOLOGY;

GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0034753547     PISSN: 14714914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-4914(01)02163-3     Document Type: Review

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