'Location, Location, Location': A spatial approach for rare variant analysis and an application to a study on non-syndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate

Bioinformatics

Volumn 28, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 3027-3033

  Fier, Heide ^a   Won, Sungho ^b   Prokopenko, Dmitry ^a   Alchawa, Taofik ^c   Ludwig, Kerstin U ^c   Fimmers, Rolf ^a   Silverman, Edwin K ^d   Pagano, Marcello ^d   Mangold, Elisabeth ^c   Lange, Christoph ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

^c Life and Brain Center   (Germany)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHROMOSOME 15; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN;

ALLELES; BRAIN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS;

EID: 84870440716     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts568     Document Type: Article

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