IthaGenes: An interactive database for haemoglobin variations and epidemiology

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Kountouris, Petros ^a   Lederer, Carsten W ^a   Fanis, Pavlos ^a   Feleki, Xenia ^a   Old, John ^b   Kleanthous, Marina ^a  

^a CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

^b OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION STORAGE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; ITHAGENES DATABASE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; HEMOGLOBINOPATHIES; HUMAN; INTERNET; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY;

GLOBIN;

DATABASES, GENETIC; GLOBINS; HEMOGLOBINOPATHIES; HUMANS; INTERNET; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84904811508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103020     Document Type: Article

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