Recombination hotspots rather than population history dominate linkage disequilibrium in the MHC class II region

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 33-40

  Kauppi, Liisa ^a   Sajantila, Antti ^b   Jeffreys, Alec J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEIOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UNITED KINGDOM; ZIMBABWE;

FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, MHC CLASS II; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MEIOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 12244297072     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddg008     Document Type: Article

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