In search of low-frequency and rare variants affecting complex traits

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue R1, 2013, Pages

  Panoutsopoulou, Kalliope ^a   Tachmazidou, Ioanna ^a   Zeggini, Eleftheria ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; CROHN DISEASE; EXOME; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; ICELAND; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; STRATIFICATION; UNCERTAINTY; WHOLE EXOME SCALE; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

EXOME; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 84884769487     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddt376     Document Type: Article

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