The effects of human population structure on large genetic association studies

Nature Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 512-517

  Marchini, Jonathan ^a   Cardon, Lon R ^b   Phillips, Michael S ^c   Donnelly, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 2442585696     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1337     Document Type: Article

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