The Genetic Modifiers of Motor OnsetAge (GeM MOA) Website: Genome-wide Association Analysis for Genetic Modifiers of Huntington's Disease

Journal of Huntington's Disease

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 279-284

  Correia, Kevin ^a   Harold, Denise ^b,h   Kim, Kyung Hee ^a,c   Holmans, Peter ^b   Jones, Lesley ^b   Orth, Michael ^d   Myers, Richard H ^e   Kwak, Seung ^f   Wheeler, Vanessa C ^a,c   MacDonald, Marcy E ^a,c,g   Gusella, James F ^a,c,g   Lee, Jong Min ^a,c,g  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f CHDI MANAGEMENT CHDI FOUNDATION   (United States)

^g BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^h TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPLEMENT ALTERNATIVE PATHWAY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC MODIFIERS OF MOTOR ONSET AGE WEBSITE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WEB BROWSER; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; INTERNET; MODIFIER GENE;

AGE OF ONSET; GENES, MODIFIER; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; INTERNET; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84961752080     PISSN: 18796397     EISSN: 18796400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JHD-150169     Document Type: Article

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