The impact of the human genome project on complex disease

Genes

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 518-535

  Cooke Bailey, Jessica N ^a   Pericak Vance, Margaret A ^b   Haines, Jonathan L ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Alzheimer's disease; Genetics; Genome wide association study; Genomics; Human genome project; Multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905591334     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/genes5030518     Document Type: Review

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