High-throughput pedigree drawing

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 987-989

  Mäkinen, Ville Petteri ^a,b   Parkkonen, Maija ^b   Wessman, Maija ^b,c   Groop, Per Henrik ^b,d   Kanninen, Timo ^e   Kaski, Kimmo ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b FOLKHÄLSAN INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^e Biocomputing Platforms Ltd   (Finland)

Author keywords

Database; Pedigree; Visualisation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; DRAWING; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; PEDIGREE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 23644444635     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201430     Document Type: Article

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