Genetic diversity in black South Africans from Soweto

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  May, Andrew ^a,b   Hazelhurst, Scott ^c   Li, Yali ^d   Norris, Shane A ^c   Govind, Nimmisha ^a,e   Tikly, Mohammed ^e   Hon, Claudia ^d   Johnson, Keith J ^d   Hartmann, Nicole ^f   Staedtler, Frank ^f   Ramsay, Michèle ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d NOVARTIS INSTITUTES FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^f NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

African population; genetic diversity; SAHGP; SNPs; southeastern Bantu speakers; Soweto

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOCHIP; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REFERENCE DATABASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN AREA;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84884396893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-644     Document Type: Article

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