Genetical genomics: Spotlight on QTL hotspots

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Breitling, Rainer ^a   Li, Yang ^a   Tesson, Bruno M ^a   Fu, Jingyuan ^a,b   Wu, Chunlei ^c   Wiltshire, Tim ^d   Gerrits, Alice ^e   Bystrykh, Leonid V ^e   De Haan, Gerald ^e   Su, Andrew I ^c   Jansen, Ritsert C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c GENOMICS INSTITUTE OF THE NOVARTIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOMICS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SHORT SURVEY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; MOUSE; RAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MICE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RATS;

EID: 55449096399     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000232     Document Type: Short Survey

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