Selection and evaluation of tagging SNPs in the neuronal-sodium-channel gene SCN1A: Implications for linkage-disequilibrium gene mapping

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 551-565

  Weale, Mike E ^a   Depondt, Chantal ^b   Macdonald, Stuart J ^a   Smith, Alice ^a   Lai, Poh San ^c   Shorvon, Simon D ^d   Wood, Nicholas W ^b   Goldstein, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENEALOGY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCN1A GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TAGGING SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 0042387804     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/378098     Document Type: Article

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