The genetically isolated populations of Finland and Sardinia may not be a panacea for linkage disequilibrium mapping of common disease genes

Nature Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 320-323

  Eaves, Iain A ^a   Merriman, Tony R ^b   Barber, Rachael A ^b   Nutland, Sarah ^a   Tuomilehto Wolf, Eva ^c   Tuomilehto, Jaakko ^c   Cucca, Francesco ^d   Todd, John A ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 18Q; FINLAND; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ITALY; MARKER GENE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FINLAND; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ITALY; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

PANACEA;

EID: 0033918564     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/77091     Document Type: Article

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