Discovering genes involved in disease and the mystery of missing heritability

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 80-87

  Eskin, Eleazar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CHROMOSOMES;

BEST LINEAR UNBIASED PREDICTOR; COMPUTER SCIENTISTS; GENETIC STUDIES; GENETIC VARIANTS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES; LARGE DATASETS; POPULATION STRUCTURES;

GENES;

EID: 84942858926     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2817827     Document Type: Review

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