Use of population isolates for mapping complex traits

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 182-190

  Peltonen, Leena ^a   Palotie, Aarno ^a   Lange, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; GENETICS, POPULATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 0034574603     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35042049     Document Type: Review

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