Genome-wide scan of 29,141 African Americans finds no evidence of directional selection since admixture

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 437-444

  Bhatia, Gaurav ^a,b   Tandon, Arti ^b,c   Patterson, Nick ^b   Aldrich, Melinda C ^d,e,f   Ambrosone, Christine B ^g   Amos, Christopher ^h   Bandera, Elisa V ⁱ   Berndt, Sonja I ^j   Bernstein, Leslie ^k   Blot, William J ^d,e,l   Bock, Cathryn H ^m   Caporaso, Neil ^j   Casey, Graham ⁿ   Deming, Sandra L ^d,e   Diver, W Ryan ^o   Gapstur, Susan M ^o   Gillanders, Elizabeth M ^j   Harris, Curtis C ^j   Henderson, Brian E ⁿ   Ingles, Sue A ⁿ   Isaacs, William ^p   De Jager, Phillip L ^b,c,q   John, Esther M ^r,s   Kittles, Rick A ^t   Larkin, Emma ^d   McNeill, Lorna H ^u   Millikan, Robert C ^v,w   Murphy, Adam ^x   Neslund Dudas, Christine ^y   Nyante, Sarah ^v,w   Press, Michael F ⁿ   Rodriguez Gil, Jorge L ^z   Rybicki, Benjamin A ^y   Schwartz, Ann G ^m   Signorello, Lisa B ^d,e,l   Spitz, Margaret ^h   Strom, Sara S ^u   Tucker, Margaret A ^j   Wiencke, John K ^aa   Witte, John S ^aa   Wu, Xifeng ^h   Yamamura, Yuko ^u   Zanetti, Krista A ^j   Zheng, Wei ^d,e   Ziegler, Regina G ^j   Chanock, Stephen J ^j   Haiman, Christopher A ⁿ   Reich, David ^b,c   Price, Alkes L ^b,ab   more..

^a HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

ⁱ RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^j NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^k CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^l INTERNATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^m WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^o AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^p JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^q BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^r CANCER PREVENTION INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^s STANFORD CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^u UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^v University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^w UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^x NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^y HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^z UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^ab HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AFRICAN; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANCESTRY GROUP; ARTICLE; DIRECTIONAL SELECTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MIGRATION; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICATION STUDY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84921811405     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: 15376605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.08.011     Document Type: Article

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