New methods for finding disease-susceptibility genes: Impact and potential

Genome Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2003, Pages

  McCarthy, Mark I ^a   Smedley, Damian ^b   Hide, Winston ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS);

EID: 0346274979     PISSN: 14656906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2003-4-10-119     Document Type: Article

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