Article
Molecular background of the Finnish disease heritage.
Annals of medicine - 1 Dec 1997
Peltonen L
Abstract excerpt
Finland has a population with a history revealing features of founder effect, genetic drift and isolation. Relatively small founder populations have slowly inhabited a large country and internal isolates have developed within Finland. This is reflected even today in the regional enrichment of some diseases belonging to the Finnish disease heritage. This concept was launched before the DNA era by skillful...
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