The X chromosome in population genetics

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-51

  Schaffner, Stephen F ^a  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYSTROPHIN; MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME XQ; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; NATURAL SELECTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

AFRICA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0346728470     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1247     Document Type: Review

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