Juxtaposed regions of extensive and minimal linkage disequilibrium in human Xq25 and Xq28

Nature Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 324-328

  Taillon Miller, Patricia ^a   Bauer Sardiña, Irma ^a   Saccone, Nancy L ^b   Putzel, Jenna ^a   Laitinen, Tarja ^a   Cao, Antonio ^c   Kere, Juha ^a   Pilia, Giuseppe ^c   Rice, John P ^b   Kwok, Pui Yan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME XQ; EUROPE; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MARKER GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FINLAND; GENETIC MARKERS; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; ITALY; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0033930144     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/77100     Document Type: Article

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