Genetic analysis of African populations: Human evolution and complex disease

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 611-621

  Tishkoff, Sarah A ^a   Williams, Scott M ^b,c  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW;

AFRICA; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036323319     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg865     Document Type: Review

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