Genetic variation among world populations: Inferences from 100 Alu insertion polymorphisms

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1607-1618

  Watkins, W Scott ^a   Rogers, Alan R ^b   Ostler, Christopher T ^a   Wooding, Steve ^a   Bamshad, Michael J ^a   Brassington, Anna Marie E ^a   Carroll, Marion L ^c   Nguyen, Son V ^d   Walker, Jerilyn A ^d   Prasad, B V Ravi ^e   Reddy, P Govinda ^f   Das, Pradipta K ^g   Batzer, Mark A ^d   Jorde, Lynn B ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ANDHRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

^g UTKAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AFRICA; ALU SEQUENCE; ASIA; AUTOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EUROPE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INDIA; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW;

AFRICA; ALU ELEMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EUROPE; FAR EAST; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; INDIA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0038148221     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.894603     Document Type: Review

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