Mapping asthma-associated variants in admixed populations
Admixed populations arise when two or more previously isolated populations start interbreeding. Mapping asthma susceptibility loci in an admixed population using admixture mapping (AM) involves screening the genome of individuals of mixed ancestry for chromosomal regions that have a higher frequency...
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| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-09-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Genetics |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fgene.2015.00292/full |