The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa

Gurdasani, Deepti; Carstensen, Tommy; Tekola‐Ayele, Fasil; Pagani, Luca; Tachmazidou, Ioanna; Hatzikotoulas, Konstantinos; Karthikeyan, Savita; Iles, Louise; Pollard, Martin; Choudhury, Ananyo; R. S. Ritchie, Graham; Xue, Yali; L. Asimit, Jennifer; N. Nsubuga, Rebecca; Young, Elizabeth; Pomilla, Cristina; Kivinen, Katja; A. Rockett, Kirk; Kamali, Anatoli; P. Doumatey, Ayo; Asiki, Gershim; Seeley, Janet; Sisay-Joof, Fatoumatta; Jallow, Muminatou; Tollman, Stephen; Mekonnen, Ephrem; Ekong, Rosemary; Oljira, Tamiru; Bradman, Neil; Bojang, Kalifa; Ramsay, Michèle; Adeyemo, Adebowale; Bekele, Endashaw; A. Motala, Ayesha; A. Norris, Shane; Pirie, Fraser; Kaleebu, Pontiano; Kwiatkowski, Dominic; Tyler‐Smith, Chris; N. Rotimi, Charles; Zeggini, Eleftheria; S. Sandhu, Manjinder

doi:10.1038/nature13997

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The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa

Published in Nature • Dec 2, 2014

Authors:

Deepti Gurdasani

Tommy Carstensen

Fasil Tekola‐Ayele

Abstract

Given the importance of Africa to studies of human origins and disease susceptibility, detailed characterization of African genetic diversity is needed. The African Genome Variation Project provides a resource with which to design, implement and interpret genomic studies in sub-Saharan Africa and wo...

Subject

Imputation (statistics)

1000 Genomes Project

Biology

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