The brave new era of human genetic testing

BioEssays

Volumn 30, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 1246-1251

  Bandelt, Hans Jürgen ^a   Yao, Yong Gang ^b   Richards, Martin B ^c   Salas, Antonio ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE MARKER; DNA DETERMINATION; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENEALOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; MEDICAL ETHICS; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHICS; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN GENOME; INHERITANCE; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; TIME;

DNA;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; DNA; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC RESEARCH; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MODELS, GENETIC; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58149147497     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20837     Document Type: Article

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