Genetic structure in four West African population groups

BMC Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Adeyemo, Adebowale A ^a,b   Chen, Guanjie ^b   Chen, Yuanxiu ^b   Rotimi, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GEOGRAPHY; GHANA; HUMAN; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NIGERIA; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POPULATION GENETICS;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

AFRICA, WESTERN; DIABETES MELLITUS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GHANA; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NIGERIA;

EID: 26444503768     PISSN: 14712156     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-6-38     Document Type: Article

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