Adult-onset genetic disease: mechanisms, analysis and prediction.

doi:10.1093/qjmed/90.2.83

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Adult-onset genetic disease: mechanisms, analysis and prediction.

QJM : monthly journal of the Association of Physicians - 1 Feb 1997

Ravine D, Cooper D N

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Recombinant DNA technology has made possible the localization and isolation of disease-related genes, the tracking of disease-related alleles through family pedigrees, the direct detection of the pathological lesion itself and the in vitro expression of both normal and mutant genetic information...

Topics

Adult
Age of Onset
Chromosome Mapping
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Genotype
Humans
Mutation
Pedigree
Phenotype

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