Mind the dbGAP: The application of data mining to identify biological mechanisms

Molecular Interventions

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 95-102

  Wooten, Eric C ^a   Huggins, Gordon S ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; DATA MINING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MARKER GENE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; DATA MINING; DATABASES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, ANIMAL; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 79955698841     PISSN: 15340384     EISSN: 15432548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mi.11.2.6     Document Type: Note

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