Evaluación de objetivos farmacológicos a través de la variación genética de pérdida de función humana

Eric Vallabh Minikel1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, Konrad J Karczewski9,10, Hilary C Martin11

  • 1Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA. eminikel@broadinstitute.org.

Nature
|May 29, 2020
PubMed
Resumen

Las variantes genéticas humanas ofrecen información sobre la función genética y el desarrollo de fármacos. Los genes esenciales pueden ser blancos de drogas, pero la identificación

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