New approaches to population stratification in genome-wide association studies

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 459-463

  Price, Alkes L ^a,b   Zaitlen, Noah A ^a,b   Reich, David ^a,c   Patterson, Nick ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAMILY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME WIDE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 77953811255     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2813     Document Type: Review

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