Ancestrymap

Record added by Jurg Ott (the original Rockefeller list)

2.0

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

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

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

UNIX, Linux

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