Different level of population differentiation among human genes

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Wu, Dong Dong ^a,c   Zhang, Ya Ping ^a,b,c  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; CULTURE; DISEASE; DISPERSAL; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; HAIR; HOMINID; LIFESTYLE; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL GENETICS; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

DISEASE; GENETICS, MEDICAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULATION GROUPS; PROTEINS;

EID: 78651374755     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-16     Document Type: Article

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