Measures of human population structure show heterogeneity among genomic regions

Genome Research

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1468-1476

  Weir, Bruce S ^a   Cardon, Lon R ^b   Anderson, Amy D ^a   Nielsen, Dahlia M ^a   Hill, William G ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE LOCUS; GENEALOGY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICS;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 27544501017     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.4398405     Document Type: Article

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