An Expanded View of Complex Traits: From Polygenic to Omnigenic

Cell

Volumn 169, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1177-1186

  Boyle, Evan A ^a   Li, Yang I ^a   Pritchard, Jonathan K ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROHN DISEASE; DISEASES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 85020941675     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.05.038     Document Type: Review

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