Divergent patterns of linkage disequilibrium and haplotype structure across global populations at the interleukin-13 (IL13) locus

Genes and Immunity

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 53-65

  Tarazona Santos, E ^a,b   Tishkoff, S A ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Haploblocks; Linkage disequilibrium; Natural selection; Population genetics; Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; GLUTAMINE; INTERLEUKIN 13;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AFRICA; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHINA; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPE; EXON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOUTH AMERICA;

AFRICA; ASTHMA; CHINA; EUROPE; EXONS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-13; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 13844317910     PISSN: 14664879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.gene.6364149     Document Type: Article

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