Ancestry of African Americans with sickle cell disease

Blood Cells, Molecules, and Diseases

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 41-45

  Solovieff, Nadia ^a   Hartley, Stephen W ^a   Baldwin, Clinton T ^b   Klings, Elizabeth S ^b   Gladwin, Mark T ^c   Taylor, James G ^d   Kato, Gregory J ^d   Farrer, Lindsay A ^a,b   Steinberg, Martin H ^b   Sebastiani, Paola ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Admixture; Genetic ancestry; Genetic association; Sickle cell disease

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BANTU; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANDENKA; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; YORUBAN;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATABASES, GENETIC; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 79956335438     PISSN: 10799796     EISSN: 10960961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bcmd.2011.04.002     Document Type: Article

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