GWASdb: A database for human genetic variants identified by genome-wide association studies

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue D1, 2012, Pages

  Li, Mulin Jun ^a   Wang, Panwen ^a   Liu, Xiaorong ^a   Lim, Ee Lyn ^a,b   Wang, Zhangyong ^a,c   Yeager, Meredith ^d,e   Wong, Maria P ^a   Sham, Pak Chung ^a   Chanock, Stephen J ^e   Wang, Junwen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^d SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GWASDB DATABASE; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RNA SPLICING;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DATABASES, GENETIC; DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84861023442     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr1182     Document Type: Article

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