Interpreting noncoding genetic variation in complex traits and human disease
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Interpreting noncoding genetic variation in complex traits and human disease
Association studies provide genome-wide information about the genetic basis of complex disease, but medical research has focused primarily on protein-coding variants, owing to the difficulty of interpreting noncoding mutations. This picture has changed with advances in the systematic annotation of functional noncoding elements. Evolutionary conservation, functional genomics, chromatin state, se...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Biotechnology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1087-0156,1546-1696
DOI: 10.1038/nbt.2422