A population-genetic test of founder effects and implications for Ashkenazi Jewish diseases

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 282-293

  Slatkin, Montgomery ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ASHKENAZI JEW; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; COLON POLYPOSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FOUNDER EFFECT; GAUCHER DISEASE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC TEST; HISTORY; HUMAN; JEW; LIPIDOSIS; LYSOSOME STORAGE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUCOLIPIDOSIS; MUCOLIPIDOSIS TYPE 4; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; REPRODUCTION; SLATKIN BERTORELLE TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAY SACHS DISEASE;

EID: 3242694118     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/423146     Document Type: Article

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