The role of regulatory variation in complex traits and disease

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 197-212

  Albert, Frank W ^a,b   Kruglyak, Leonid ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Gonda Genetics Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEOME; TRANSCRIPTOME;

DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; REVIEW; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84925089678     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3891     Document Type: Review

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