Article
Phylomedicine: an evolutionary telescope to explore and diagnose the universe of disease mutations.
Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 Sept 2011
Kumar Sudhir, Dudley Joel T, Filipski Alan, Liu Li
Abstract excerpt
Modern technologies have made the sequencing of personal genomes routine. They have revealed thousands of nonsynonymous (amino acid altering) single nucleotide variants (nSNVs) of protein-coding DNA per genome. What do these variants foretell about an individual's predisposition to diseases? The experimental technologies required to carry out such evaluations at a genomic scale are not yet available. Fortunately,...
Topics
- Computer Simulation
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Diseases, Inborn
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genetic Testing
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Medical
- Genomics
- Humans
- Models, Genetic
- Mutation
