Finnish Disease Heritage I: Characteristics, causes, background

Human Genetics

Volumn 112, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 441-456

  Norio, Reijo ^a  

^a Vaestoliitto   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; BLOOD DISEASE; BONE DISEASE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPILEPSY; FAMILY STUDY; FINLAND; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC REGULATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HEARING LOSS; HETEROZYGOTE; HISTORY; HUMAN; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; METABOLIC DISORDER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THEORY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; CONSANGUINITY; FEMALE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; MIGRATION; MUTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDIGREE; POPULATION GENETICS; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

CONSANGUINITY; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 0037605876     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-002-0875-3     Document Type: Review

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