Genetic heterogeneity of Icelanders

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-16

  Árnason, Einar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Admixture; Database errors; Heterogeneity; Iceland; mtDNA

Indexed keywords

ALLOENZYME; MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ALLELE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; ICELAND; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ETHNIC GROUP; GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE;

DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; ICELAND; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 0038628471     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-1809.2003.00003.x     Document Type: Article

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