Will admixture mapping work to find disease genes?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1460, 2005, Pages 1605-1607

  Reich, David ^a,b   Patterson, Nick ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

Admixture mapping; Ancestry; Genetics

Indexed keywords

DISEASE; GENE;

CHROMOSOME MAP; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOMICS; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 27144437387     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2005.1691     Document Type: Conference Paper

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