Genome-wide association studies for common diseases and complex traits

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 95-108

  Hirschhorn, Joel N ^a,b,c   Daly, Mark J ^a,d  

^a BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTIFACT; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE GENE INTERACTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOME; GENOME WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOME WIDE LINKAGE ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 13144306071     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1521     Document Type: Review

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