Approaches for establishing the function of regulatory genetic variants involved in disease

Genome Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Knight, Julian Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEOME; TRANSCRIPTOME;

DISEASES; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; METABOLOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; REVIEW;

EID: 84920804189     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1756994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13073-014-0092-4     Document Type: Review

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