Signals of recent positive selection in a worldwide sample of human populations

Genome Research

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 826-837

  Pickrell, Joseph K ^a   Coop, Graham ^a,h   Novembre, John ^a,b   Kudaravalli, Sridhar ^a   Li, Jun Z ^c   Absher, Devin ^d   Srinivasan, Balaji S ^e,f,g   Barsh, Gregory S ^f   Myers, Richard M ^d   Feldman, Marcus W ^f   Pritchard, Jonathan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d HUDSONALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Stanford University   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; NATURAL SELECTION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; NEUREGULINS; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 66049157487     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.087577.108     Document Type: Article

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