Fast, scalable prediction of deleterious noncoding variants from functional and population genomic data

Nature Genetics

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 618-624

  Huang, Yi Fei ^a   Gulko, Brad ^a,b   Siepel, Adam ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC BACKGROUND; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOME; MAMMAL; METAGENOMICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMATE; PROCEDURES; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; HUMANS; MAMMALS; METAGENOMICS; PHENOTYPE; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 85015007138     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3810     Document Type: Article

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