Is 'forward' the same as 'plus'?...and other adventures in SNP allele nomenclature

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 361-363

  Nelson, Sarah C ^a   Doheny, Kimberly F ^b   Laurie, Cathy C ^a   Mirel, Daniel B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE PROBE; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; LETTER; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84863874689     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2012.05.002     Document Type: Letter

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