Recent approaches to the prioritization of candidate disease genes

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 429-442

  Doncheva, Nadezhda T ^a   Kacprowski, Tim ^a,b   Albrecht, Mario ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CPG ISLAND; GENE PRODUCT; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; PROTEINS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84865168370     PISSN: 19395094     EISSN: 1939005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wsbm.1177     Document Type: Review

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