Mendelian disorders deserve more attention

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 277-282

  Antonarakis, Stylianos E ^a   Beckmann, Jacques S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MULTIFACTORIAL GENETIC DISORDER; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE;

EID: 33645130154     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1826     Document Type: Review

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