Ascertainment bias in studies of human genome-wide polymorphism

Genome Research

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1496-1502

  Clark, Andrew G ^a   Hubisz, Melissa J ^a   Bustamante, Carlos D ^a   Williamson, Scott H ^a   Nielsen, Rasmus ^a,b  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

DATABASES, GENETIC; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SELECTION BIAS;

PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 27544474337     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.4107905     Document Type: Article

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