Diversity of lactase persistence alleles in ethiopia: Signature of a soft selective sweep

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 538-544

  Jones, Bryony L ^a   Raga, Tamiru O ^b   Liebert, Anke ^a   Zmarz, Pawel ^a   Bekele, Endashaw ^b   Danielsen, E Thomas ^c   Olsen, Anders Krüger ^c,e   Bradman, Neil ^a,d   Troelsen, Jesper T ^c   Swallow, Dallas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d Henry Stewart Conference Studies   (United Kingdom)

^e Hospital South   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; ETHIOPIA; ETHNIC GROUP; FUNCTION TEST; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LACTASE GENE; LACTOSE TOLERANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CACO-2 CELLS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; COHORT STUDIES; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; ETHIOPIA; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INTRONS; LACTASE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFECTION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84883816471     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: 15376605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2013.07.008     Document Type: Article

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