Al mena: A comprehensive resource of human genetic variants integrating genomes and exomes from Arab, Middle Eastern and North African populations

Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 889-894

  Koshy, Remya ^a   Ranawat, Anop ^a   Scaria, Vinod ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE;

ARAB; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EXOME; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; LAMELLAR ICHTHYOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AFRICAN; TRANSGLUTAMINASE 1 GENE; AFRICA; ALLELE; BIOLOGY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POPULATION GENETICS; PROCEDURES; SEARCH ENGINE; WEB BROWSER;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; ALLELES; ARABS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; EXOME; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; SEARCH ENGINE; WEB BROWSER;

EID: 85029886580     PISSN: 14345161     EISSN: 1435232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jhg.2017.67     Document Type: Article

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