The human genome and understanding of common disease: Present and future technologies

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 961-978

  McKinney, C ^a   Merriman, T R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Association; Gene; Genome; Human genome project; Linkage; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; CALPAIN 10; CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN PROTEIN 15; COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR; NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PROTEIN ARGININE DEIMINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CROHN DISEASE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

DISEASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS;

EID: 34247124110     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-007-6405-7     Document Type: Review

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