VarElect: The phenotype-based variation prioritizer of the GeneCards Suite

BMC Genomics

Volumn 17, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Stelzer, Gil ^a,b   Plaschkes, Inbar ^b   Oz Levi, Danit ^a   Alkelai, Anna ^a   Olender, Tsviya ^a   Zimmerman, Shahar ^a   Twik, Michal ^a   Belinky, Frida ^c   Fishilevich, Simon ^a   Nudel, Ron ^a   Guan Golan, Yaron ^d   Warshawsky, David ^d   Dahary, Dvir ^b,e   Kohn, Asher ^d   Mazor, Yaron ^b   Kaplan, Sergey ^b   Iny Stein, Tsippi ^a   Baris, Hagit N ^f,g   Rappaport, Noa ^a   Safran, Marilyn ^a   Lancet, Doron ^a   more..

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b LifeMap Sciences   (Israel)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d LifeMap Sciences Inc   (United States)

^e Toldot Genetics Ltd   (Israel)

^f Rambam Health Care Campus   (Israel)

^g TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gene prioritization; Guilt by association; Next generation sequencing analysis; Phenotype interpretation; Phenotyping; Variant selection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOME; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE TECHNOLOGY; GENECARDS SUITE DATABASE; GENESLIKEME DATABASE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALACARDS DATABASE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; PATHCARDS DATABASE; PHENOTYPE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VARELECT; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; DATA MINING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN GENOME; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA MINING; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOME, HUMAN; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84978042663     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-2722-2     Document Type: Article

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