Insights from GWAS: Emerging landscape of mechanisms underlying complex trait disease

BMC Genomics

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Pal, Lipika R ^a   Yu, Chen Hsin ^a,b   Mount, Stephen M ^c   Moult, John ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex trait disease; Expression; Functional annotation; GWAS; Missense; SNPs; Splicing

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; ISOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA SPLICING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; METABOLIC DISORDER; MISSENSE MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; METABOLIC DISEASES; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 84969506262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-16-S8-S4     Document Type: Article

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