Linkage disequilibrium - Understanding the evolutionary past and mapping the medical future

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 477-485

  Slatkin, Montgomery ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; POPULATION;

EID: 43749105558     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2361     Document Type: Review

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