Microbial genome-wide association studies: lessons from human GWAS

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 41-50

  Power, Robert A ^a   Parkhill, Julian ^b   De Oliveira, Tulio ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL GENOME; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN GENOME; MICROBIOLOGY;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME, MICROBIAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS;

EID: 84994742911     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg.2016.132     Document Type: Review

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