Copy number variants and genetic traits: Closer to the resolution of phenotypic to genotypic variability

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 639-646

  Beckmann, Jacques S ^a   Estivill, Xavier ^b   Antonarakis, Stylianos E ^c  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; GENOMIC DNA; MEMBRANE COFACTOR PROTEIN;

ANEUPLOIDY; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; PENETRANCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRISOMY; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS;

FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; PENETRANCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TRISOMY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34447569298     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2149     Document Type: Review

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