Human population structure, genome autozygosity and human health

Genome Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Campbell, Harry ^a   Rudan, Igor ^b   Bittles, Alan H ^c   Wright, Alan F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^c MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; AUTOZYGOSITY; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; NOTE; PLESIOMORPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; URBANIZATION;

EID: 77953376670     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1756994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gm91     Document Type: Note

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