Race, ethnicity, and genomics: Social classifications as proxies of biological heterogeneity

Genome Research

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 844-850

  Foster, Morris W ^a,c   Sharp, Richard R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC RESOURCE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL STATUS;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOMICS; HUMANS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 0036075767     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.99202     Document Type: Article

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