Common and low-frequency variants associated with genome-wide recombination rate

Nature Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 11-16

  Kong, Augustine ^a,b   Thorleifsson, Gudmar ^a   Frigge, Michael L ^a   Masson, Gisli ^a   Gudbjartsson, Daniel F ^a,b   Villemoes, Rasmus ^a   Magnusdottir, Erna ^b   Olafsdottir, Stefania B ^a   Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur ^a,b   Stefansson, Kari ^a,b  

^a DECODE GENETICS   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; EXOME; FEMALE; GAMETE; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; INTRON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84891373510     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2833     Document Type: Article

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