A Quantitative Comparison of the Similarity between Genes and Geography in Worldwide Human Populations

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Chaolong ^a   Zöllner, Sebastian ^b   Rosenberg, Noah A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAST ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOUTH ASIA; SUB SAHARAN AFRICA; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN GENOME; MIGRATION;

EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84866145037     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002886     Document Type: Article

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