Global survey of haplotype frequencies and linkage disequilibrium at the RET locus

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 760-769

  Chattopadhyay, Pratima ^a   Pakstis, Andrew J ^a   Mukherjee, Namita ^a   Iyengar, Sudha ^b   Odunsi, Adekunle ^c   Okonofua, Friday ^d   Bonne Tamir, Batsheva ^e   Speed, William ^a   Kidd, Judith R ^a   Kidd, Kenneth K ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BENIN   (Nigeria)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Haplotypes; Linkage disequilibrium; Polymorphisms; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN RET;

ALLELE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; NEGRO; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TANDEM REPEAT;

ALLELES; EXONS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 10744221271     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201036     Document Type: Article

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