The overdue promise of short tandem repeat variation for heritability

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 504-512

  Press, Maximilian O ^a   Carlson, Keisha D ^a   Queitsch, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Epistasis; Heritability; Microsatellites; Sequencing technologies; Short tandem repeats

Indexed keywords

DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPISTASIS; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MUTATION RATE; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUTATION RATE; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84927562442     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: 13624555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2014.07.008     Document Type: Review

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