From syndrome families to functional genomics

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 545-551

  Brunner, Han G ^a   Van Driel, Marc A ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; BONE DYSPLASIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOMICS; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BONE AND BONES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FACIES; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOTYPE; SYNDROME;

EID: 3042841887     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1383     Document Type: Review

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