Is there still a need for candidate gene approaches in the era of genome-wide association studies?

Genomics

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 415-419

  Wilkening, Stefan ^a   Chen, Bowang ^a   Bermejo, Justo Lorenzo ^a   Canzian, Federico ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affymetrix; Candidate genes; Coverage; Genome wide association studies; Illumina; Microarrays; Single nucleotide polymorphisms; Whole genome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC RISK; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NEGRO; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

DISEASE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 64149103426     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2008.12.011     Document Type: Article

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