Databases for neurogenetics: Introduction, overview, and challenges

Human Mutation

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1311-1314

  Sobrido, María Jesús ^a,b   Cacheiro, Pilar ^c   Carracedo, Ángel ^a,b,c   Bertram, Lars ^d  

^a Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Santiago de Compostela IDIS CIBERER   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Databases; Genotype phenotype; HVP; LSDB; Neurogenetics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETICS; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MUTATION; NEUROGENETICS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MUTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES;

EID: 84865200077     PISSN: 10597794     EISSN: 10981004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/humu.22164     Document Type: Article

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