Ten years of genetics and genomics: What have we achieved and where are we heading?

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 723-733

  Heard, Edith ^a   Tishkoff, Sarah ^b   Todd, John A ^c   Vidal, Marc ^d,e   Wagner, Günter P ^f   Wang, Jun ^g,h   Weigel, Detlef ⁱ   Young, Richard ^j  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^j WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 77956873809     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2878     Document Type: Review

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