A brief note on the resemblance between relatives in the presence of population stratification

Heredity

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 563-568

  Sebro, R ^a,b,c   Risch, N J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

genomewide association studies; heritability; population stratification

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ASSORTATIVE MATING; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; HERITABILITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; POLYMORPHISM; SUBPOPULATION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; MALE; PEDIGREE; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 84859990081     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2011.124     Document Type: Article

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