Assessing the impact of population stratification on genetic association studies

Matthew L. Freedman; David Reich; Kathryn L. Penney; Gavin J. McDonald; André A. Mignault; Hon‐Cheong So; Stacey Gabriel; Eric J. Topol; Jordan W. Smoller; Carlos N. Pato; Michele T. Pato; Tracey L. Petryshen; Laurence N. Kolonel; Eric S. Lander; Pamela Sklar; Brian E. Henderson; Joel N. Hirschhorn; David Altshuler

doi:10.1038/ng1333

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Population stratificationBiologyStratification (seeds)Genetic associationPopulationCohortGenotypingAncestry-informative markerEvolutionary biologyGeneticsAlleleDemographyAllele frequencyGenotypeGeneSingle-nucleotide polymorphismInternal medicineMedicine

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Year: 2004
Type: article
Volume: 36
Issue: 4
Pages: 388-393
Citations: 810
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                                    Matthew L. Freedman, 
                                
                                    David Reich, 
                                
                                    Kathryn L. Penney
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2004). 
                            Assessing the impact of population stratification on genetic association studies. 
                            Nature Genetics
                            , 36
                            (4)
                            , 388-393.
                            https://doi.org/10.1038/ng1333
                        

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DOI: 10.1038/ng1333