Genetic analysis of complex disease - A roadmap to understanding or a colossal waste of money

Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 258-265

  Glaser, Benjamin ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Candidate genes; Genome wide association studies; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

ALSTROM SYNDROME; DIABETES MELLITUS; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC DISORDER; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; IPEX SYNDROME; JUVENILE DIABETES MELLITUS; LIPODYSTROPHY; MATERNALLY INHERITED DIABETES AND DEAFNESS; MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA; MONOGENIC DISORDER; MYOPATHY; REVIEW; WOLFRAM SYNDROME; CHILD; ECONOMICS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CHILD; DATABASES, GENETIC; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; HUMANS;

EID: 77955866132     PISSN: 15654753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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