Inferring geographic coordinates of origin for Europeans using small panels of ancestry informative markers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Drineas, Petros ^a   Lewis, Jamey ^a   Paschou, Peristera ^b  

^a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PLESIOMORPHY; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VALIDATION PROCESS; ALGORITHM; CAUCASIAN; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENETICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC MARKERS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77957857734     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011892     Document Type: Article

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