The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa

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

doi:10.1038/nature13997

The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa

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

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Original language	English
Journal	Nature
Volume	517
Issue number	7534
Pages (from-to)	327-U397
Number of pages	16
ISSN	0028-0836
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13997
Publication status	Published - 15 Jan 2015
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Fields of Science

POPULATION-GENETICS
MALARIA
SELECTION
WIDE
SUSCEPTIBILITY
REVEALS
ASSOCIATION
DIVERSITY
VARIANTS
ANCESTRY

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Gurdasani, D., Carstensen, T., Tekola-Ayele, F., Pagani, L., Tachmazidou, I., Hatzikotoulas, K., Karthikeyan, S., Iles, L., Pollard, M. O., Choudhury, A., Ritchie, G. S., Xue, Y., Asimit, J., Nsubuga, R. N., Young, E. H., Pomilla, C., Kivinen, K., Rockett, K., Kamali, A., ... Sandhu, M. S. (2015). The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa. Nature, 517(7534), 327-U397. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13997

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