Towards a complete North American Anabaptist genealogy: A systematic approach to merging partially overlapping genealogy resources

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 156-161

  Agarwala, Richa ^a   Biesecker, Leslie G ^a   Tomlin, James F ^b   Schäffer, Alejandro A ^a  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amish; Autosomal recessive inheritance; Consanguinity; Inbreeding; Mennonite

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONSANGUINITY; DATA BASE; GENEALOGY; INBREEDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CONSANGUINITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALE; PEDIGREE; PENNSYLVANIA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0033543468     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19990910)86:2<156::AID-AJMG13>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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