Recent positive selection of a human androgen receptor/ectodysplasin A2 receptor haplotype and its relationship to male pattern baldness

Human Genetics

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 255-264

  Hillmer, Axel M ^a,b   Freudenberg, Jan ^c   Myles, Sean ^d   Herms, Stefan ^a   Tang, Kun ^d   Hughes, David A ^e   Brockschmidt, Felix F ^a   Ruan, Yijun ^b   Stoneking, Mark ^e   Nöthen, Markus M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; XEDAR RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME POSITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EUROPE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE MAP; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE TYPE ALOPECIA; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; X CHROMOSOME;

ALLELES; ALOPECIA; ECTODYSPLASINS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MEIOSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 68949205721     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: 14321203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-009-0668-z     Document Type: Article

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