Estimating African American admixture proportions by use of population- specific alleles

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1839-1851

  Parra, Esteban J ^a,h   Marcini, Amy ^a   Akey, Joshua ^a   Martinson, Jeremy ^b   Batzer, Mark A ^c   Cooper, Richard ^d   Forrester, Terrence ^e   Allison, David B ^f   Deka, Ranjan ^g   Ferrell, Robert E ^b   Shriver, Mark D ^a,h  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^f Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA MARKER;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENDER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC DISTANCE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; NEGRO; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0032472024     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302148     Document Type: Article

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