Musings on genome medicine: The value of family history

Genome Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Clarke, Angus John ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICINE; EPIGENETICS; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME MEDICINE; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 77953374393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1756994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gm75     Document Type: Note

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