Population-ethnic group specific genome variation allele frequency data: A querying and visualization journey

Genomics

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 93-101

  Viennas, Emmanouil ^a   Gkantouna, Vassiliki ^a   Ioannou, Marina ^a   Georgitsi, Marianthi ^b   Rigou, Maria ^a   Poulas, Konstantinos ^b   Patrinos, George P ^b   Tzimas, Giannis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Data mining; Genetic disease; Genetic variation; National ethnic mutation databases (NEMDBs); Querying tools; Visualization tools

Indexed keywords

TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CFTR GENE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FANCA GENE; FREQUENCY OF INHERITED DISORDERS DATABASE; GBA GENE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HBB GENE; HEXA GENE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEFV GENE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEB BROWSER;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MUTATION; PHARMACOGENETICS; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84864064340     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2012.05.009     Document Type: Article

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