Finding disease genes: A fast and flexible approach for analyzing high-throughput data

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1090-1094

  Stewart, William C L ^a   Drill, Esther N ^a   Greenberg, David A ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

disease genes; linkage disequilibrium; sequencing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 80053053102     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2011.81     Document Type: Article

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