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How old is this mutation? - a study of three Ashkenazi Jewish founder mutations.
BMC genetics - 14 May 2010
Greenwood Celia M T, Sun Shuying, Veenstra Justin, Hamel Nancy, Niell Bethany, Gruber Stephen, Foulkes William D
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BACKGROUND: Several founder mutations leading to increased risk of cancer among Ashkenazi Jewish individuals have been identified, and some estimates of the age of the mutations have been published. A variety of different methods have been used previously to estimate the age of the mutations. Here three datasets containing genotype information near known founder mutations are reanalyzed in order to compare three...
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