Spotting the target: Microarrays for disease gene discovery

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 258-263

  Meltzer, Paul S ^a  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE;

DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; TANGIER DISEASE;

EID: 0035370708     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(00)00187-8     Document Type: Review

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