Code
3F020108
Duration
01 October 2008 → 30 September 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Scientific computing
- Bioinformatics and computational biology
- Genetics
- Systems biology
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Medical and health sciences
- Bioinformatics and computational biology
- Laboratory medicine
- Medical systems biology
- Molecular and cell biology
- Bioinformatics and computational biology
- Laboratory medicine
- Medical systems biology
- Molecular and cell biology
- Public health care
- Public health services
- Bioinformatics and computational biology
- Laboratory medicine
- Medical systems biology
- Molecular and cell biology
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Engineering and technology
- Scientific computing
Keywords
mental retardation
sequencing
genetics
Project description
Chromosomal aberrations as well as pointmutations are an important cause of mental retardation and multipele congenital abnormalities (MR/MCA). In this project, the newest technologies in human genetics (selective resequencing) will be used to resequence 3000 candidate genes for MR/MCA in order to understand the underlying cause of MR/MCA and to gain insights in normal human embryogenesis.