The genetics of infectious disease susceptibility: Has the evidence for epistasis been overestimated?

BMC Biology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hall, Matthew D ^a   Ebert, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EPISTASIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 84880391500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-11-79     Document Type: Article

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