Genetic architecture of quantitative traits and complex diseases

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 678-683

  Fu, Wenqing ^a   O'Connor, Timothy D ^a   Akey, Joshua M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 8; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR;

DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84889589942     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2013.10.008     Document Type: Review

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