Systems genetics: linking genotypes and phenotypes
Whereas genetic studies have traditionally focused on explaining heritance of single traits and their phenotypes, recent technological advances have made it possible to comprehensively dissect the genetic architecture of complex traits and quantify how genes interact to shape phenotypes. This exciti...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2015
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| Series: | Cambridge Series in Systems Genetics
Cambridge series in systems genetics |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9781139012751 |
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| Online Access: | Verlag, URL des Erstveröffentlichers, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139012751 Resolving-System, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139012751 
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| Author Notes: | edited by Florian Markowetz (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute), Michael Boutros (German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg) |
| Summary: | Whereas genetic studies have traditionally focused on explaining heritance of single traits and their phenotypes, recent technological advances have made it possible to comprehensively dissect the genetic architecture of complex traits and quantify how genes interact to shape phenotypes. This exciting new area has been termed systems genetics and is born out of a synthesis of multiple fields, integrating a range of approaches and exploiting our increased ability to obtain quantitative and detailed measurements on a broad spectrum of phenotypes. Gathering the contributions of leading scientists, both computational and experimental, this book shows how experimental perturbations can help us to understand the link between genotype and phenotype. A snapshot of current research activity and state-of-the-art approaches to systems genetics are provided, including work from model organisms such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Drosophila melanogaster, as well as from human studies |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Feb 2016) |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9781107013841 9781139012751 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9781139012751 |