The Great Migration and African-American Genomic Diversity

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Baharian, Soheil ^a   Barakatt, Maxime ^a   Gignoux, Christopher R ^b   Shringarpure, Suyash ^b   Errington, Jacob ^a   Blot, William J ^c,d   Bustamante, Carlos D ^b   Kenny, Eimear E ^e   Williams, Scott M ^f   Aldrich, Melinda C ^c   Gravel, Simon ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; CASE REPORT; CHEMICAL BINDING; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; GENETIC ISOLATION BY DISTANCE; HUMAN; MODEL; BLACK PERSON; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; MIGRATION; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84974530800     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006059     Document Type: Article

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