Diagnostic approaches to apparent homozygosity

Genetics in Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 877-882

  Landsverk, Megan L ^a   Douglas, Ganka V ^a   Tang, Sha ^a   Zhang, Victor W ^a   Wang, Guo Li ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Wong, Lee Jun C ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

allele dropout; apparent homozygosity; array CGH; autosomal recessive; SNP array

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ALLELE; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; POINT MUTATION; SANGER SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UNIPARENTAL DISOMY;

ALGORITHMS; ALLELES; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UNIPARENTAL DISOMY;

EID: 84867216418     PISSN: 10983600     EISSN: 15300366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/gim.2012.58     Document Type: Article

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