Genome-wide survey in African Americans demonstrates potential epistasis of fitness in the human genome.

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Published in Genet Epidemiol on December 05, 2016

Authors

Heming Wang1, Yoonha Choi2, Bamidele Tayo3, Xuefeng Wang4, Nathan Morris1, Xiang Zhang5, Uli Broeckel6, Craig Hanis7, Sharon Kardia8, Susan Redline9, Richard S Cooper3, Hua Tang2, Xiaofeng Zhu1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
2: Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
3: Department of Public Health Science, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, USA.
4: Departments of Preventive Medicine, Biomedical Informatics, and Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
5: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
6: Human and Molecular Genetics Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
7: Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
8: Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
9: Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

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