Southwestern Athabaskan (Navajo and Apache) genetic diseases

Genetics in Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 151-157

  Erickson, Robert P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apaches; Genetic bottlenecks; Genodermatoses; Immunodeficiency; Native Americans; Navajos; Neurological disorders

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; APACHE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CANADA; COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; RECESSIVE GENE; SKIN DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

APACHE; BRAIN STEM; CANADA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; LINKAGE (GENETICS); SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; SKIN DISEASES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033123482     PISSN: 10983600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00125817-199905000-00007     Document Type: Article

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