Predicting candidate genes for human deafness disorders: A bioinformatics approach

BMC Genomics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Alsaber, Rami ^a   Tabone, Christopher J ^a   Kandpal, Raj P ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN GENOME; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENOMICS; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS;

EID: 33748703471     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-7-180     Document Type: Article

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