The first Malay database toward the ethnic-specific target molecular variation

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Halim Fikri, Hashim ^a,b   Etemad, Ali ^a   Latif, Ahmad Zubaidi Abdul ^b   Merican, Amir Feisal ^c,d   Baig, Atif Amin ^b   Annuar, Azlina Ahmad ^c   Ismail, Endom ^e   Salahshourifar, Iman ^a   Liza Sharmini, Ahmad Tajudin ^a   Ramli, Marini ^a   Shah, Mohamed Irwan ^b   Johan, Muhammad Farid ^a   Hassan, Nik Norliza Nik ^f   Abdul Aziz, Noraishah Mydin ^c   Noor, Noor Haslina Mohd ^a   Nur Shafawati, Ab Rajab ^a   Hassan, Rosline ^a   Bahar, Rosnah ^a   Zain, Rosnah Binti ^c   Yusoff, Shafini Mohamed ^a   Yusoff, Surini ^a   Tan, Soon Guan ^g   Thong, Meow Keong ^c   Wan Isa, Hatin ^a   Abdullah, Wan Zaidah ^a   Mohamed, Zahurin ^c   Latiff, Zarina Abdul ^h   Zilfalil, Bin Alwi ^a   more..

^a SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI SULTAN ZAINAL ABIDIN   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^e UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^f SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Malaysia)

^g UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^h UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA MEDICAL CENTER   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

CNVs; Disease genes and their products; Ethnic specific molecular variation database; Malaysian Node of the Human Variome Project; SNPs

Indexed keywords

ETHNIC GROUP; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALAYSIA;

DATABASES, GENETIC; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; MALAYSIA;

EID: 84930009991     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13104-015-1123-y     Document Type: Article

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