The genetic structure of Pacific Islanders

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 0173-0190

  Friedlaender, Jonathan S ^a   Friedlaender, Françoise R ^b   Reed, Floyd A ^c   Kidd, Kenneth K ^d   Kidd, Judith R ^d   Chambers, Geoffrey K ^e   Lea, Rodney A ^e   Loo, Jun Hun ^f   Koki, George ^g   Hodgson, Jason A ^h,j   Merriwether, D Andrew ^h   Weber, James L ⁱ  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Maryland ^*

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^f MACKAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^g PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^h BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

^j NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MELANESIA; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PHYLOGENY; POLYNESIA; POPULATION GENETICS; TAIWAN; TOPOGRAPHY; Y CHROMOSOME; ALLELE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN GENOME; LANGUAGE; MIGRATION;

ALLELES; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 38949170720     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0040019     Document Type: Article

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