Clines, clusters, and the effect of study design on the inference of human population structure

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 0660-0671

  Rosenberg, Noah A ^a   Mahajan, Saurabh ^b   Ramachandran, Sohini ^c   Zhao, Chengfeng ^d   Pritchard, Jonathan K ^e   Feldman, Marcus W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALLELES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POPULATION GROUPS;

EID: 33750437374     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0010070     Document Type: Article

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