Functional mapping of human growth trajectories

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 261, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-42

  Li, Ning ^a   Das, Kiranmoy ^b   Wu, Rongling ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epistasis; Functional mapping; Human growth curve; QTL

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; BIOMARKER; DATA SET; GENE; GENOME; GENOTYPE; GROWTH MODELING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MAPPING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BODY GROWTH; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EPISTASIS; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; JAPANESE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; ALGORITHMS; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GROWTH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 70349484834     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.07.020     Document Type: Article

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