Implications for health and disease in the genetic signature of the Ashkenazi Jewish population

Genome Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Guha, Saurav ^a   Rosenfeld, Jeffrey A ^a   Malhotra, Anil K ^a,b,c,d   Lee, Annette T ^b   Gregersen, Peter K ^b,d   Kane, John M ^a,b,c,d   Pe'er, Itsik ^e   Darvasi, Ariel ^f   Lencz, Todd ^a,b,c,d  

^a Northwell Health   (United States)

^b FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DONALD AND BARBARA ZUCKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT HOFSTRA NORTHWELL   (United States)

^e Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science   (United States)

^f HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABCB1 GENE; AIF1 GENE; ALF1 GENE; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ASHKENAZI JEWISH POPULATION; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CFTR GENE; CHLORIDE TRANSPORT; CLRN1 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DKK3 GENE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; GSTP1 GENE; HEALTH STATUS; HEXA GENE; HLA DRB GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IKB KAP GENE; LCT GENE; MALE; MC1R GENE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MHC CLASS 1 GENE; MTHFR GENE; NOD2 GENE; PCDH15 GENE; PER1 GENE; PLAU GENE; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PPARG GENE; PPARGC1A GENE; SH2B3 GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; JEW; POPULATION GENETICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

CFTR PROTEIN, HUMAN; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR;

ALLELES; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENES, MHC CLASS I; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; JEWS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84856084252     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2012-13-1-r2     Document Type: Article

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