A Genomic Portrait of Haplotype Diversity and Signatures of Selection in Indigenous Southern African Populations

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Chimusa, Emile R ^a,b   Meintjies, Ayton ^a   Tchanga, Milaine ^a   Mulder, Nicola ^a   Seioghe, Cathal ^c   Soodyall, Himla ^d   Ramesar, Rajkumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Centre for Proteomic and Genomic Research   (South Africa)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^d NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFLUENZA; MALARIA; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOUTH AFRICAN; TUBERCULOSIS; AFRICA; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN GENOME; POPULATION GENETICS;

AFRICA, SOUTHERN; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84926344277     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005052     Document Type: Article

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