Long-range LD Can Confound Genome Scans in Admixed Populations

Overview

Journal Am J Hum Genet

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Genetics

Date 2008 Jul 9

PMID 18606306

Citations 243

Authors

Alkes L Price

Michael E Weale

Nick Patterson

Simon R Myers

Anna C Need

Kevin V Shianna

Dongliang Ge

Jerome I Rotter

Esther Torres

Kent D Taylor

David B Goldstein

David Reich

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