Characterization of autosomal copy-number variation in African Americans: The HyperGEN Study

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1271-1275

  Wineinger, Nathan E ^a   Pajewski, Nicholas M ^b   Kennedy, Richard E ^a   Wojczynski, Mary K ^c   Vaughan, Laura K ^a   Hunt, Steven C ^d   Gu, C Charles ^e   Rao, Dabeeru C ^e   Lorier, Rachel ^f   Broeckel, Ulrich ^f   Arnett, Donna K ^a   Tiwari, Hemant K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

!DNA copy number variation; African American; calling algorithm; Birdsuite; PennCNV; HyperGEN

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 81455131744     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2011.115     Document Type: Article

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