Population-genetic comparison of the Sorbian isolate population in Germany with the German KORA population using genome-wide SNP arrays

BMC Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Gross, Arnd ^a   Tönjes, Anke ^a   Kovacs, Peter ^b   Veeramah, Krishna R ^c   Ahnert, Peter ^a   Roshyara, Nab R ^a   Gieger, Christian ^d   Rueckert, Ina Maria ^d   Loeffler, Markus ^a   Stoneking, Mark ^e   Wichmann, Heinz Erich ^d,f,g   Novembre, John ^c   Stumvoll, Michael ^a   Scholz, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^g LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CZECH REPUBLIC; FAMILY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GERMANY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; POLAND; POPULATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ADULT; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE;

ADULT; AGED; CZECH REPUBLIC; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GERMANY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; POLAND; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULATION GROUPS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 79960656505     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-12-67     Document Type: Article

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