Finding the molecular basis of complex genetic variation in humans and mice

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1467, 2006, Pages 393-401

  Mott, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Association; Complex traits; Genetic mapping; Human genetics; Mouse genetics; Quantitative trait locus

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; MAPPING METHOD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; RODENT;

RODENTIA;

ANIMAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MOUSE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MICE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33646355194     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2005.1798     Document Type: Review

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