VeryGene: Linking tissue-specific genes to diseases, drugs, and beyond for knowledge discovery

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 457-460

  Yang, Xiaoqin ^a   Ye, Yun ^a,b   Wang, Guiping ^a,c   Huang, Hong ^d   Yu, Dekuang ^a   Liang, Shuang ^a  

^a SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGXI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c GUANGZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease gene drug association; Hypothesis inferences; Tissue specificity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; INTERNET; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, GENETIC; DISEASE; DRUG THERAPY; GENES; GENOMIC LIBRARY; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MICE; SOFTWARE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79955780589     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00178.2010     Document Type: Article

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