Genome wide association studies and prion disease

Prion

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 154-160

  Lukic, Ana ^a,b   Mead, Simon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CJD; Genetic; GWAS; Prion

Indexed keywords

CPNE8 GENE; CTSD GENE; CYTOGENETICS; EXOME; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HECTD2 GENE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRION DISEASE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SPORADIC CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; SPRN GENE;

ANIMALS; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MICE; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 80052810605     PISSN: 19336896     EISSN: 1933690X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/pri.5.3.16892     Document Type: Note

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