Screening for recently selected alleles by analysis of human haplotype similarity

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 153-159

  Hanchard, Neil A ^a,b,e   Rockett, Kirk A ^a,b   Spencer, Chris ^b   Coop, Graham ^b   Pinder, Margaret ^c   Jallow, Muminatou ^c   Kimber, Martin ^a,d   McVean, Gil ^b   Mott, Richard ^a   Kwiatkowski, Dominic P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^d University of the West Indies ^*  (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 20; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC SELECTION; HAPLOTYPE; HBB GENE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 29244474907     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/499252     Document Type: Article

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