Signatures of natural selection in the human genome

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 99-111

  Bamshad, Michael ^a   Wooding, Stephen P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450 1A2; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PARACETAMOL;

ADAPTATION; AFRICA; ALGORITHM; BLOOD GROUP DUFFY SYSTEM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENEALOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TECHNIQUE; VARIANCE;

EVOLUTION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0037307413     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg999     Document Type: Review

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