Haplotype Structure and Evidence for Positive Selection at the Human IL13 Locus

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 29-35

  Zhou, Gangqiao ^a,b   Zhai, Yun ^a   Dong, Xiaojia ^b   Zhang, Xiumei ^a   He, Fengying ^b   Zhou, Kaixin ^a   Zhu, Yunping ^a   Wei, Handong ^a   Yao, Zhijian ^b   Zhong, Shaofei ^a   Shen, Yan ^a   Qiang, Boqing ^a   He, Fuchu ^a,b  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF RADIATION MEDICINE   (China)

^b CHINESE NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME CENTER AT SHANGHAI   (China)

Author keywords

Interleukin 13; Positive selection; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 13;

AFRICA; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; ATOPY; CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-13; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 10744225855     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg231     Document Type: Article

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