famCNV: Copy number variant association for quantitative traits in families

Bioinformatics

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1873-1875

  Eleftherohorinou, Hariklia ^a   Andersson Assarsson, Johanna C ^b,c   Walters, Robin G ^a,c   El Sayed Moustafa, Julia S ^c   Coin, Lachlan ^a   Jacobson, Peter ^b   Carlsson, Lena M S ^b   Blakemore, Alexandra I F ^c   Froguel, Philippe ^c   Walley, Andrew J ^c   Falchi, Mario ^c  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; FAMILY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

DISEASE; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; FAMILY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79959419881     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr264     Document Type: Note

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