HzAnalyzer: Detection, quantification, and visualization of contiguous homozygosity in high-density genotyping datasets

Genome Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Johnson, Todd A ^a,b   Niimura, Yoshihito ^b   Tanaka, Hiroshi ^b   Nakamura, Yusuke ^c   Tsunoda, Tatsuhiko ^a  

^a RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN GENOME; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; BIOLOGY; GENOMICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WORKFLOW;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HAPLOTYPES; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; WORKFLOW;

EID: 79952483152     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2011-12-3-r21     Document Type: Article

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