Chapter 15: Disease Gene Prioritization

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Bromberg, Yana ^a  

^a The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS;

ASSOCIATED COSTS; CANDIDATE GENES; DISEASE GENE PRIORITIZATION; DISEASE GENES; EXPERIMENTAL TESTING; GENE PRIORITIZATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT EXPERIMENTATION; NORMAL FUNCTION; PRIORITIZATION; PRIORITIZATION TECHNIQUES;

GENES;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE PRIORITIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 84876917161     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002902     Document Type: Article

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