Copy number variants and common disorders: Filling the gaps and exploring complexity in genome-wide association studies

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1787-1799

  Estivill, Xavier ^a   Armengol, Lluís ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ASTHMA; AUTISM; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BREAST CANCER; CELIAC DISEASE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CROHN DISEASE; DEVICE; FAMILIAL CANCER; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PARKINSON DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSTATE CANCER; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ANIMALS; GENE DOSAGE; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEOTIDES; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 35948991932     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030190     Document Type: Review

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