Computational analysis of human disease-associated genes and their protein products

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 247-257

  Sreekumar, Kodangattil R ^a   Aravind, L ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA SECRETASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; PRESENILIN 1; PRESENILIN 2; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 3;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARABIDOPSIS; CHLORIDE DIARRHEA; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DWARFISM; DYSPLASIA; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; LYMPHOMA; MCKUSICK KAUFMAN SYNDROME; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NONHUMAN; PENDRED SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FORECASTING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARCHAEA; ATAXIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0035371210     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(00)00186-6     Document Type: Review

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