DNA pooling: A tool for large-scale association studies

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 862-871

  Sham, Pak ^a   Bader, Joel S ^b   Craig, Ian ^a   O'Donovan, Michael ^c   Owen, Michael ^c  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CURAGEN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FLUOROMETRY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REVIEW; RISK;

ANIMALS; DNA; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 0036844881     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg930     Document Type: Review

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