Human population dispersal "Out of Africa" estimated from linkage disequilibrium and allele frequencies of SNPs

Genome Research

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 821-829

  McEvoy, Brian P ^a   Powell, Joseph E ^a   Goddard, Michael E ^b,c   Visscher, Peter M ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; EVOLUTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; POPULATION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 79957956814     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.119636.110     Document Type: Article

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