Evaluating empirical bounds on complex disease genetic architecture

Nature Genetics

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1418-1427

  Agarwala, Vineeta ^a,b,c   Flannick, Jason ^b,d,e   Sunyaev, Shamil ^a,b,c,f   Altshuler, David ^a,b,d,e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FLOW; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ARCHITECTURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DISEASE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE;

EID: 84888389414     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2804     Document Type: Article

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