Computational tools for prioritizing candidate genes: Boosting disease gene discovery

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 523-536

  Moreau, Yves ^a   Tranchevent, Léon Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX FORMATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE PRIORITIZATION TOOL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 84863987708     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3253     Document Type: Review

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