Genetic architecture of body size in mammals

Genome Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Kemper, Kathryn E ^a   Visscher, Peter M ^b   Goddard, Michael E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Human height; Mutation effects; Mutation selection balance

Indexed keywords

ACHONDROPLASIA; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BEALS SYNDROME; BODY BUILD; BODY SIZE; COSTELLO SYNDROME; DE LANGE SYNDROME; FAMILY; GELEOPHYSIC DYSPLASIA; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH HORMONE INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDROPLASIA; INHERITANCE; MARFAN SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; REVIEW; SHORT STATURE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOTOS SYNDROME; SYNDROME 3 M; TALL STATURE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84860491008     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2012-13-4-244     Document Type: Review

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