ThalInd, a β-thalassemia and hemoglobinopathies database for India: Defining a model country-specific and disease-centric bioinformatics resource

Human Mutation

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 887-893

  Sinha, Sujata ^a,b   Black, Michael L ^a   Agarwal, Sarita ^c   Das, Reena ^d   Bittles, Alan H ^a,e   Bellgard, Matthew ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Thalassemia Working Group   (India)

^c SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^d POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^e EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

thalassemia; Bioinformatics resource; Database; Hemoglobinopathies; India ThalInd

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; BIOINFORMATICS; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; GENETIC DISORDER; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; INDIA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; WEB BROWSER;

BETA-THALASSEMIA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEMOGLOBINOPATHIES; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERNET; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79960843856     PISSN: 10597794     EISSN: 10981004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/humu.21510     Document Type: Article

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