Human DNA sequences: More variation and less race

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-34

  Long, Jeffrey C ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Healy, Meghan E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; DNA sequence; Hierachical models; Race; Short tandem repeat

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; RACE; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DNA; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 66949175244     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21011     Document Type: Article

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