The landscape of human STR variation

Genome Research

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1894-1904

  Willems, Thomas ^a,b   Gymrek, Melissa ^a,b,c,d   Highnam, Gareth ^e   Mittelman, David ^e,f   Erlich, Yaniv ^a  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f Gene by Gene Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; POINT MUTATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSPOSON; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84912066273     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.177774.114     Document Type: Article

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