Genetic diversity and genetic burden in humans

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 154-162

  Harpending, Henry ^a   Cochran, Gregory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ashkenazi jews; BRCA1; Genetic burden; Genetic polymorphism; Mutation; Rapid selection

Indexed keywords

HFE PROTEIN; TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR;

ALLELE; CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MALARIA; NOTE; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION; SOCIAL ADAPTATION;

ALLELES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33344465086     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2005.04.002     Document Type: Note

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