Perspectives on human population structure at the cusp of the sequencing Era

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages 245-274

  Novembre, John ^a   Ramachandran, Sohini ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Genetic drift; Genome; High throughput technology; Migration; Resequencing; Single nucleotide polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; AUTOSOME; BACKGROUND SELECTION; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; EUROPE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE MAP; HEMIZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MUTATION RATE; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PURIFYING SELECTION; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 80052748466     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: 1545293X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genom-090810-183123     Document Type: Review

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