The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa

Nature

Volumn 517, Issue 7534, 2015, Pages 327-332

  Gurdasani, Deepti ^a,b   Carstensen, Tommy ^a,b   Tekola Ayele, Fasil ^c   Pagani, Luca ^a,d   Tachmazidou, Ioanna ^a   Hatzikotoulas, Konstantinos ^a   Karthikeyan, Savita ^a,b   Iles, Louise ^a,b,e   Pollard, Martin O ^a   Choudhury, Ananyo ^f   Ritchie, Graham R S ^a,g   Xue, Yali ^a   Asimit, Jennifer ^a   Nsubuga, Rebecca N ^h   Young, Elizabeth H ^a,b   Pomilla, Cristina ^a,b   Kivinen, Katja ^a   Rockett, Kirk ⁱ   Kamali, Anatoli ^h   Doumatey, Ayo P ^c   Asiki, Gershim ^h   Seeley, Janet ^h   Sisay Joof, Fatoumatta ^j   Jallow, Muminatou ^j   Tollman, Stephen ^k,l   Mekonnen, Ephrem ^m   Ekong, Rosemary ⁿ   Oljira, Tamiru ^o   Bradman, Neil ^p   Bojang, Kalifa ^j   Ramsay, Michele ^f,q,r   Adeyemo, Adebowale ^c   Bekele, Endashaw ^m   Motala, Ayesha ^s   Norris, Shane A ^f   Pirie, Fraser ^s   Kaleebu, Pontiano ^h   Kwiatkowski, Dominic ^a,i   Tyler Smith, Chris ^k   Rotimi, Charles ^c   Zeggini, Eleftheria ^k   Sandhu, Manjinder S ^a,b   more..

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^g EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Italy)

^h UGANDA VIRUS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Uganda)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^j MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^k SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^l Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Ghana)

^m ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^o HARAMAYA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^p Henry Stewart Conference Studies   (United Kingdom)

^q NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

^r UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^s UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; GENOTYPE; NATURAL SELECTION; POPULATION GENETICS;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALARIA; MEDICAL GENETICS; OSMOREGULATION; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ASIA; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN GENOME; RISK FACTOR; TRENDS;

AFRICA;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ASIA; EUROPE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, MEDICAL; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84923186799     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13997     Document Type: Article

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