Linkage disequilibrium analysis in a recently founded population: Evaluation of the variegate porphyria founder in South African Afrikaners [3]

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1254-1258

  Groenewald, J Z ^a   Liebenberg, J ^a   Groenewald, I M ^a   Warnich, L ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LETTER; PORPHYRIA VARIEGATA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031971162     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/301833     Document Type: Letter

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