Haplotypic analysis of the TNF locus by association efficiency and entropy

Genome Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Ackerman, Hans ^a,b,c,f   Usen, Stanley ^d   Mott, Richard ^a   Richardson, Anna ^a,c   Sisay Joof, Fatoumatta ^d   Katundu, Pauline ^e   Taylor, Terrie ^e   Ward, Ryk ^b   Molyneux, Malcolm ^e   Pinder, Margaret ^d   Kwiatkowski, Dominic P ^a,c  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute of Biological Anthropology   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Additional Data File; Entropy Maximization Method; Haplotypic Diversity; Haplotypic Structure; Repulsion Phase

Indexed keywords

TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ENTROPY; GAMBIA; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MALAWI; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENTROPY; GAMBIA; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALAWI; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0038175152     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2003-4-4-r24     Document Type: Article

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