Comparative high-resolution analysis of linkage disequilibrium and tag single nucleotide polymorphisms between populations in the vitamin D receptor gene

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 1633-1639

  Nejentsev, Sergey ^a   Godfrey, Lisa ^a   Snook, Hywel ^a   Rance, Helen ^a   Nutland, Sarah ^a   Walker, Neil M ^a   Lam, Alex C ^a   Guja, Cristian ^b   Ionescu Tirgoviste, Constantin ^b   Undlien, Dag E ^c   Rønningen, Kjersti S ^d   Tuomilehto Wolf, Eva ^e   Tuomilehto, Jaakko ^e,f   Newport, Melanie J ^a   Clayton, David G ^a   Todd, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Clin of Nutr and Metabolic Disease   (ROM)

^c ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^e NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D RECEPTOR;

AFRICA; ALLELE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GAMBIA; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; POPULATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; SAMPLE SIZE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 4344675303     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddh169     Document Type: Article

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