Common disease: Are causative alleles common or rare?

PLoS Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Shields, Robert ^a  

^a United States of America and Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

BOTTLENECK POPULATION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDITORIAL; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ALLELE; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DISEASE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS;

EID: 79851472702     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001009     Document Type: Editorial

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