Molecular genetic epidemiology of human diseases: From patterns to predictions

Human Genetics

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 425-430

  Knecht, Carolin ^a   Krawczak, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER MODEL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRON; NNSPLICE DATABASE; POINT MUTATION; POLYPHEN 2 DATABASE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIFT DATABASE; SWISS-PROT;

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MUTATION;

EID: 84897023443     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: 14321203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-013-1396-y     Document Type: Review

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