A computational system to select candidate genes for complex human traits.

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Published in Bioinformatics on January 19, 2007

Authors

Kyle J Gaulton1, Karen L Mohlke, Todd J Vision

Author Affiliations

1: Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biologly, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, USA. kgaulton@email.unc.edu

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