The million mutation project: A new approach to genetics in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genome Research

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1749-1762

  Thompson, Owen ^a   Edgley, Mark ^b   Strasbourger, Pnina ^a   Flibotte, Stephane ^b   Ewing, Brent ^a   Adair, Ryan ^b   Au, Vinci ^b   Chaudhry, Iasha ^b   Fernando, Lisa ^b   Hutter, Harald ^c   Kieffer, Armelle ^b   Lau, Joanne ^b   Lee, Norris ^b   Miller, Angela ^b   Raymant, Greta ^b   Shen, Bin ^b   Shendure, Jay ^a   Taylor, Jon ^b   Turner, Emily H ^a   Hillier, Ladeana W ^a   Moerman, Donald G ^b   Waterston, Robert H ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA REPAIR; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RESOURCE; INDEL MUTATION; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CODON, NONSENSE; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, SUPPRESSOR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HELMINTH; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HETEROZYGOTE; INDEL MUTATION; MALE; MUTATION; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 84884266257     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.157651.113     Document Type: Article

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