Genetic ancestry and the search for personalized genetic histories

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 611-618

  Shriver, Mark D ^a   Kittles, Rick A ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOINFORMATICS; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENEALOGY; GENETIC ANCESTRY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC LINEAGE; GENETIC MARKER; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; INTERNET; MATERNAL LINEAGE; MEDICAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PATERNAL LINEAGE; PERSONALIZED GENETIC HISTORY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DATABASES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETICS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MASS SCREENING; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; NAMES; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 3442900016     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1405     Document Type: Review

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