Understanding human DNA sequence variation

KK Kidd, AJ Pakstis, WC Speed, JR Kidd - Journal of Heredity, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Over the past century researchers have identified normal genetic variation and studied that
variation in diverse human populations to determine the amounts and distributions of that …

[PDF][PDF] Genetic variation and human evolution

LB Jorde - American Society of Human Genetics, 2003 - education.nsw.gov.au
The past two decades have witnessed an explosion of human genetic data. Innumerable
DNA sequences and genotypes have been generated, and they have led to significant …

Population genetics—making sense out of sequence

A Chakravarti - Nature genetics, 1999 - nature.com
The complete human genome nucleotide sequence and technologies for assessing
sequence variation on a genome–scale will prompt comprehensive studies of comparative …

Opinion: how can one study individual variation for 3 billion nucleotides of the human genome?

LL Cavalli-Sforza - American journal of human genetics, 1990 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Nucleotides of the Human Genome? Page 1 Am. J. Hum. Genet. 46:649-651, 1990 Opinion:
How Can One Study Individual Variation for 3 Billion Nucleotides of the Human Genome? L …

Genome scans of DNA variability in humans reveal evidence for selective sweeps outside of Africa

JF Storz, BA Payseur… - Molecular biology and …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The last 50,000–150,000 years of human history have been characterized by rapid
demographic expansions and the colonization of novel environments outside of sub …

Worldwide DNA sequence variation in a 10-kilobase noncoding region on human chromosome 22

Z Zhao, L Jin, YX Fu, M Ramsay… - Proceedings of the …, 2000 - National Acad Sciences
Human DNA sequence variation data are useful for studying the origin, evolution, and
demographic history of modern humans and the mechanisms of maintenance of genetic …

Human genome diversity initiative

JR Kidd, KK Kidd, KM Weiss - Human biology, 1993 - JSTOR
The international Human Genome Project (HGP) is an effort to map and then sequence the
human genome, that is, to determine the DNA sequence of all 3 billion nucleotide base pairs …

Human genome diversity: frequently asked questions

G Barbujani, V Colonna - Trends in Genetics, 2010 - cell.com
Despite our relatively large population size, humans are genetically less variable than other
primates. Many allele frequencies and statistical descriptors of genome diversity form broad …

The human genome diversity project: past, present and future

LL Cavalli-Sforza - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2005 - nature.com
Abstract The Human Genome Project, in accomplishing its goal of sequencing one human
genome, heralded a new era of research, a component of which is the systematic study of …

The study of variation in the human genome

A Bowcock, L Cavalli-Sforza - Genomics, 1991 - Elsevier
Regions of the genome showing high evolutionary stability are often conserved as a result of
functional constraints. Conversely, more variable regions are likely to represent DNA with no …