'Unique' alleles in admixed populations: a strategy for determining 'hereditary' population differences of disease frequencies.

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'Unique' alleles in admixed populations: a strategy for determining 'hereditary' population differences of disease frequencies.

Ethnicity & disease - 1 Jan 1991

Chakraborty R, Kamboh M I, Ferrell R E

Abstract excerpt

The genetic contribution of a parental population in an admixed population can be estimated from the frequencies of unique alleles that exist only in that parental population. In this work we show that although the estimated admixture component from a single such unique allele may be quite unstab...

Topics

Africa
Alleles
Black People
Ethnicity
Gene Frequency
Genetic Linkage
Genetics, Population
Humans
Hypertension
Linear Models
Models, Genetic
United States
Black or African American

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