Application of ancestry informative markers to association studies in European Americans

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 0001-0002

  Seldin, Michael F ^a   Price, Alkes L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; JEW; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL ASPECT; ALLELE; CAUCASIAN; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA MICROARRAY; ETHNOLOGY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; IRELAND; NOTE; UNITED STATES;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IRELAND; JEWS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38949093617     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0040005     Document Type: Short Survey

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