The impact of divergence time on the nature of population structure: an example from Iceland.

The Icelandic population has been sampled in many disease association studies, providing a strong motivation to understand the structure of this population and its ramifications for disease gene mapping. Previous work using 40 microsatellites showed that the Icelandic population is relatively homoge...

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Main Authors: Alkes L Price, Agnar Helgason, Snaebjorn Palsson, Hreinn Stefansson, David St Clair, Ole A Andreassen, David Reich, Augustine Kong, Kari Stefansson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-06-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2684636?pdf=render