The illusive gold standard in genetic ancestry testing

Science

Volumn 325, Issue 5936, 2009, Pages 38-39

  Lee, Sandra Soo Jin ^a   Bolnick, Deborah A ^b   Duster, Troy ^c,d   Ossorio, Pilar ^e   TallBear, Kimberly ^f  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; GENETICS; TESTING METHOD;

GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; GOLD STANDARD; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PLESIOMORPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 67650045641     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1173038     Document Type: Short Survey

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