How important are rare variants in common disease?

Briefings in Functional Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 353-361

  Pierre, Aude Saint ^a   Génin, Emmanuelle ^a  

^a French Blood Agency   (France)

Author keywords

Common disease; Common variants; Mutation selection balance; Next generation sequencing; Population genetics; Rare variants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; POPULATION GENETICS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISEASES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; PROCEDURES;

DISEASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 84920476665     PISSN: 20412649     EISSN: 20412657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elu025     Document Type: Article

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