Missing heritability and strategies for finding the underlying causes of complex disease

Keywords

Missing heritability problemHeritabilityBiologyGenetic architectureGenome-wide association studyDiseaseEvolutionary biologyGeneticsQuantitative trait locusGenetic variantsGeneGenotypeSingle-nucleotide polymorphismMedicine

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University of Washington US

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Year: 2010
Type: review
Volume: 11
Issue: 6
Pages: 446-450
Citations: 1717
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                                    Evan E. Eichler, 
                                
                                    Jonathan Flint, 
                                
                                    Greg Gibson
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2010). 
                            Missing heritability and strategies for finding the underlying causes of complex disease. 
                            Nature Reviews Genetics
                            , 11
                            (6)
                            , 446-450.
                            https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg2809
                        

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DOI: 10.1038/nrg2809