The Post-GWAS Era: From Association to Function

2018/05/01 by Michael D. Gallagher, Alice S. Chen-Plotkin, Alice Chen‐Plotkin · 908 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Medicine · #Bioinformatics #Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks #Biology #Computational biology #Disease #Epigenetics and DNA Methylation #Functional genomics #Gene #Genetic Associations and Epidemiology #Genetic association #Genetics #Genome #Genome-wide association study #Genomics #Genotype #Medicine #Single-nucleotide polymorphism

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.04.002

published in The American Journal of Human Genetics 102(5), 717-730 (Elsevier BV)

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