About ALFRED
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ALFRED - ALlele FREquency Database
ALFRED has been designed to make allele frequency data on anthropologically defined human population samples readily available to the scientific community and to link these polymorphism data to the molecular genetics-human genome databases. Initially, ALFRED contained primarily data generated in the laboratories of K.K. and J.R. Kidd in the Department of Genetics at Yale, including extensive unpublished data. Data from the published literature are being entered into ALFRED in a systematic way, with a focus on polymorphisms studied in many different populations. (Researchers wishing to have their data entered into ALFRED should contact us. If suitable data can be sent in appropriate electronic format, it will be much easier to include them in ALFRED.) ALFRED is distinct from such databases as dbSNP, which catalogs sequence variation. ALFRED's focus is on allele frequencies in diverse anthropologically defined populations. It is not a compendium of human DNA polymorphisms but of frequencies of selected polymorphisms with an emphasis on those that have been studied in multiple populations. All of the data in ALFRED are considered to be in the public domain and available for use in research and teaching.
This Wiki application has been developed to supplement the curation efforts in ALFRED.
Populations that can be annotated:
Keralite A population from southern India. Samples collected from different parts of Kerala, a state in India.
Badaga A population from southern India. Sample obtained from badagas of Nilgiris.
Uyghur A population from Central and Southeast Asia.
Hezhe A population from China.
Dornqdayc A population from China.
Citations for Frequency Tables:
If the allele frequency tables from published papers you are interested in are not in ALFRED help us by giving us the citation. Our curators will extract the allele frequency tables and upload them into ALFRED. Please enter the citations in the following link.
Other:
What else would you like to edit in ALFRED? We welcome your comments and suggestions on the user interface, quality, and quantity of data in ALFRED. Also let us know how you use ALFRED.
