ANCESTRYMAP

Record added by Jurg Ott (the original Rockefeller list)

Version

2.0

Description

ANCESTRYMAP screens through the genome in a recently mixed population such as African Americans, searching for segments with increased ancestry from one of the ancestral populations, which can indicate the position of disease genes

Author

  • Arti Tandon (email: atandon@broad.mit.edu)
  • Nick Patterson (email: nickp@broad.mit.edu)

  • David Reich.

    URL

    http://genepath.med.harvard.edu/~reich/Software.htm

    OS

    UNIX, Linux

    Reference

    Patterson, Hattangadi, Lane, Lohmueller, Hafler, Oksenberg, Hauser, Smith, O’Brien, Altshuler, Daly, Reich (2004), “Methods for high-density admixture mapping of disease genes”, American Journal of Human Genetics, 74(5):97-1000