Maximizing the potential of functional genomics

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 190-201

  Steinmetz, Lars M ^a   Davis, Ronald W ^b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MISMATCH REPAIR; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA REPAIR; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; YEASTS;

EID: 1542350628     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1293     Document Type: Review

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