The genetic population structure of northern Sweden and its implications for mapping genetic diseases

Hereditas

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 171-180

  Einarsdottir, Elisabet ^a   Egerbladh, Inez ^a   Beckman, Lars ^a   Holmberg, Dan ^a   Escher, Stefan A ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MAPPING; GENEALOGY; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION GROWTH; RIVER; SWEDEN;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MARRIAGE; SWEDEN;

EID: 36348942404     PISSN: 00180661     EISSN: 16015223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2007.0018-0661.02007.x     Document Type: Article

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