Contemporary, yeast-based approaches to understanding human genetic variation

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 658-664

  Dunham, Maitreya J ^a   Fowler, Douglas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN MSH2; PROTEIN P53;

ANEUPLOIDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SYNTHESIS; EPISTASIS; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; HAPLOIDY; HEMIZYGOSITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; MISMATCH REPAIR; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; YEAST;

GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEOMICS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84889561956     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2013.10.001     Document Type: Review

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