Evolution by phenotype: A biomedical perspective

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 159-182

  Weiss, Kenneth M ^a   Buchanan, Anne V ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN A1; APOLIPOPROTEIN A4; APOLIPOPROTEIN C3; BETA GLOBIN; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; DNA; HEMOGLOBIN C; HEMOGLOBIN S; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; PHENYLALANINE 4 MONOOXYGENASE; PRESENILIN 1; PRESENILIN 2; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BREAST CANCER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLON CANCER; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; EYE DISEASE; GAUCHER DISEASE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEARING DISORDER; HEART DISEASE; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL GENETICS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NATURAL SELECTION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OVARY CANCER; PHENOTYPE; PHENYLKETONURIA; PIGMENT DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REVIEW; TAY SACHS DISEASE;

EID: 0037541498     PISSN: 00315982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pbm.2003.0032     Document Type: Review

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