Predictive Functional Analysis of Polymorphisms: An Overview

Bioinformatics for Geneticists: A Bioinformatics Primer for the Analysis of Genetic Data: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 247-280

  Plumpton, Mary ^a   Barnes, Michael R ^a  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing gene expression regulation mechanism; Common disease common variant (CD CV) hypothesis; Predictive functional analysis of polymorphisms; Promoter regions and regulatory elements; Pseudogenes and regulatory mRNA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889629403     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470059180.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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