Classical sickle beta-globin haplotypes exhibit a high degree of long-range haplotype similarity in African and Afro-Caribbean populations

BMC Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hanchard, Neil ^a,e   Elzein, Abier ^b   Trafford, Clare ^b   Rockett, Kirk ^b   Pinder, Margaret ^c   Jallow, Muminatou ^c   Harding, Rosalind ^d   Kwiatkowski, Dominic ^b   McKenzie, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN S; GLOBIN;

AFRICAN CARIBBEAN; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARKER GENE; NEGRO; NIGERIA; PLESIOMORPHY; POPULATION RESEARCH; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; ADULT; ALLELE; ETHNOLOGY; GAMBIA; GENETICS; JAMAICA; MUTATION; SICKLE CELL TRAIT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ALLELES; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; GAMBIA; GLOBINS; HAPLOTYPES; HEMOGLOBIN, SICKLE; HUMANS; JAMAICA; MUTATION; NIGERIA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SICKLE CELL TRAIT;

EID: 34848834843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-8-52     Document Type: Article

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