Cryptic causation of human disease: Reading between the (germ) lines

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 82-88

  Weiss, Kenneth M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CANCER GENETICS; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MIGRATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC FIELD; EPILEPSY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERM LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NERVE CELL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 12344326485     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2004.12.008     Document Type: Article

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