Exploring genetic interactions and networks with yeast

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 437-449

  Boone, Charles ^a   Bussey, Howard ^b   Andrews, Brenda J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPLOIDY; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; FUNGAL GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC EPISTASIS; HAPLOIDY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; LETHALITY; METAZOON; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST;

ALGORITHMS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DIPLOIDY; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE DELETION; GENES, LETHAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOMICS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

METAZOA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 34249041230     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2085     Document Type: Review

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