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Walking the interactome for prioritization of candidate disease genes.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Apr 2008
Köhler Sebastian, Bauer Sebastian, Horn Denise, Robinson Peter N
Abstract excerpt
The identification of genes associated with hereditary disorders has contributed to improving medical care and to a better understanding of gene functions, interactions, and pathways. However, there are well over 1500 Mendelian disorders whose molecular basis remains unknown. At present, methods such as linkage analysis can identify the chromosomal region in which unknown disease genes are located, but the...
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