ALFRED: allele frequency database

The ALlele FREquency Database
ALFRED is a resource of gene frequency data on human populations
supported by the U. S. National Science Foundation.

Sample Information:

Population Name	Sample Name	ALFRED UID	Number of Chromosomes
African Americans	Africans(AFR)	SA003520K	192

Relation to Other Samples:
Estimated heterozygosities for various sites:

Sample Description: This sample of Africans (AFA) are from the Coriell Institute for Medical Research and are based on the self-identified ethnic affliation. The subjects were all healthy and unrelated.
References:
- Silva MC, Zuccherato LW, Soares-Souza GB, Vieira ZM, Cabrera L, Herrera P, Balqui J, Romero C, Jahuira H, Gilman RH, Martins ML, Tarazona-Santos E. "Development of two multiplex mini-sequencing panels of ancestry informative SNPs for studies in Latin Americans: an application to populations of the State of Minas Gerais (Brazil)". Genet Mol Res. 9:2069-85. (2010) Online citation.

- Tian C, Hinds DA, Shigeta R, Kittles R, Ballinger DG, Seldin MF "A genomewide single-nucleotide-polymorphism panel with high ancestry information for African American admixture mapping". Am J Hum Genet. 79:640-9. (2006) Online citation.

© 2012 Kenneth K Kidd, Yale University. All rights reserved. The full Copyright Notification is also available.
Originally prototyped by Michael Osier with the aid of Kei Cheung
Upgrades and maintenance since 2002 by Haseena Rajeevan