Characterizing the admixed African ancestry of African Americans

Genome Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Zakharia, Fouad ^a   Basu, Analabha ^b   Absher, Devin ^c   Assimes, Themistocles L ^a   Go, Alan S ^d   Hlatky, Mark A ^a   Iribarren, Carlos ^d   Knowles, Joshua W ^a   Li, Jun ^e   Narasimhan, Balasubramanian ^a   Sidney, Steven ^d   Southwick, Audrey ^a   Myers, Richard M ^c   Quertermous, Thomas ^a   Risch, Neil ^b,d,f   Tang, Hua ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HUDSONALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; AFRICA; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MATING TYPE; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; Y CHROMOSOME; GENETICS; MIGRATION; NEGRO; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UNITED STATES;

AFRICA; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 76249114566     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2009-10-12-r141     Document Type: Article

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