Simulations provide support for the common disease-common variant hypothesis

Genetics

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 763-776

  Peng, Bo ^a,c   Kimmel, Marek ^a,b  

^a The NanoCarbon Center and Welch Institute for Advanced Materials   (United States)

^b SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; GENETIC SELECTION; MIGRATION;

ALLELES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 34047236641     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.058164     Document Type: Article

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