A general population-genetic model for the production by population structure of spurious genotype-phenotype associations in discrete, admixed or spatially distributed populations

Genetics

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1665-1678

  Rosenberg, Noah A ^a   Nordborg, Magnus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 33746413435     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.055335     Document Type: Article

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