Genome-wide association studies of hematologic phenotypes: A window into human hematopoiesis

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 339-344

  Sankaran, Vijay G ^a,b,c   Orkin, Stuart H ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN F;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CD4 CD8 RATIO; CELL TYPE; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; ERYTHROID CELL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SICKLE CELL BETA THALASSEMIA; THROMBOCYTE;

BLOOD PLATELETS; ERYTHROID CELLS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84879883635     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2013.02.006     Document Type: Review

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