Genetics, medicine, and the plain people

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages 513-536

  Strauss, Kevin A ^a,b,c   Puffenberger, Erik G ^a,b  

^a CLINIC FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN   (United States)

^b FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anabaptist; Deme; Haplotype; Identity by descent; Mendelian; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

DNA MARKER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE DEFICIENCY; ALPHA ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BARDET BIEDL SYNDROME; BIOTINIDASE DEFICIENCY; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 11 DEFICIENCY; CARTILAGE HAIR HYPOPLASIA; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE; CILIARY DYSKINESIA; COCKAYNE SYNDROME; CONGENITAL NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; CRIGLER NAJJAR SYNDROME; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; CYSTINURIA; ELLIS VAN CREVELD SYNDROME; EPILEPSY; FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GALACTOSEMIA; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE; HAPLOTYPE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEREDITARY SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HOMOCYSTINURIA; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; HYPOALDOSTERONISM; IMMIGRANT; INFECTION; MAPLE SYRUP URINE DISEASE; MCKUSICK KAUFMAN SYNDROME; MEDICAL CARE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MEVALONATE KINASE DEFICIENCY; MICROCEPHALY; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYOPATHY; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; NEWBORN SCREENING; OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA; PEDIATRICS; PELIZAEUS MERZBACHER DISEASE; PHENYLKETONURIA; POPULATION GENETICS; PROPHYLAXIS; PROPIONIC ACIDEMIA; RECURRENT FEVER; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; SIALIC ACID STORAGE DISEASE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL ASPECT; STROKE; SUDDEN DEATH; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; TESTIS DISEASE; TYROSINEMIA;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENETICS, MEDICAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MARYLAND; PENNSYLVANIA;

EID: 70350221911     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genom-082908-150040     Document Type: Review

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