Genetic Substructure of Kuwaiti Population Reveals Migration History

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Alsmadi, Osama ^a   Thareja, Gaurav ^a   Alkayal, Fadi ^a   Rajagopalan, Ramakrishnan ^a   John, Sumi Elsa ^a   Hebbar, Prashantha ^a   Behbehani, Kazem ^a   Thanaraj, Thangavel Alphonse ^a  

^a DASMAN DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPEAN; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; KUWAIT; KUWAITI; MALE; PERSIAN; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION MIGRATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WEST ASIAN;

ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IRAN; KUWAIT; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 84884170209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074913     Document Type: Article

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