Natural human knockouts and the era of genotype to phenotype

Genome Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Alkuraya, Fowzan S ^a,b  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^b ALFAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

APC GENE; ARTICLE; BRCA2 GENE; BREAST CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COLON CANCER; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DNASE1L3 GENE; DWARFISM; FUT2 GENE; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GENE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; INFANCY; LIMB MALFORMATION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; LRIG3 GENE; NEB GENE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; OTOP1 GENE; OVARY CANCER; PATHOGENESIS; PCSK9 GENE; PRIMORDIAL DWARFISM; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

EID: 84930643841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1756994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13073-015-0173-z     Document Type: Article

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