ETHNOS: A versatile electronic tool for the development and curation of national genetic databases

Human Genomics

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 361-368

  van Baal, Sjozef ^a   Zlotogora, Joël ^b   Lagoumintzis, George ^c,d   Gkantouna, Vassiliki ^e   Tzimas, Ioannis ^e   Poulas, Konstantinos ^c   Tsakalidis, Athanassios ^e   Romeo, Giovanni ^f   Patrinos, George P ^c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^d TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Database; Genetic disorders; Laboratories; Mutations; Software

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ALLELE; DOCUMENTATION; ETHNICITY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUTATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ETHNIC GROUP; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISRAEL; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 85027941056     PISSN: 14739542     EISSN: 14797364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1479-7364-4-5-361     Document Type: Article

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