Race, Ancestry, and Genes: Implications for Defining Disease Risk

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 33-67

  Kittles, Rick A ^a   Weiss, Kenneth M ^b  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease mapping; Gene mapping; Genetics of disease; Human variation

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GENE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; POLITICS; POPULATION GENETICS; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICS;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0242440979     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genom.4.070802.110356     Document Type: Review

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