Population stratification confounds genetic association studies among Latinos

Human Genetics

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 652-664

  Choudhry, Shweta ^a,b   Coyle, Natasha E ^a,b   Tang, Hua ^c   Salari, Keyan ^a,b   Lind, Denise ^a   Clark, Suzanne L ^a,b   Tsai, Hui Ju ^a,b   Naqvi, Mariam ^a,b   Phong, Angie ^a   Ung, Ngim ^a,b   Matallana, Henry ^a,b   Avila, Pedro C ^a   Casal, Jesus ^d   Torres, Alfonso ^d   Nazario, Sylvette ^d   Castro, Richard ^a,b   Battle, Natalie C ^a,b   Perez Stable, Eliseo J ^a   Kwok, Pui Yan ^a   Sheppard, Dean ^a,b   Shriver, Mark D ^e   Rodriguez Cintron, William ^d   Risch, Neil ^a,f   Ziv, Elad ^a   Burchard, Esteban Gonzàlez ^a,b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MEXICO; MORTALITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERTO RICO; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MEXICO; PUERTO RICO;

EID: 29244445983     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-005-0071-3     Document Type: Article

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