ALFRED: allele frequency database

The ALlele FREquency Database
ALFRED is a resource of gene frequency data on human populations
supported by the Yale Center for Medical Informatics.

Sample Information:

Population Name	Sample Name	ALFRED UID	Number of Chromosomes
Pashtun	Pathan	SA002873U	184

Relation to Other Samples:
Estimated heterozygosities for various sites:

Sample Description: This sample consists unrelated individuals collected by Dr. Qasim Mehdi and colleagues in Pakistan. The Pathans inhabit the North West Frontier Province and Balochistan Province in Pakistan and parts of neighboring Afghanistan (Bellew 1998; Caroe 1958). They speak an Indo-European language, viz., Pushto (Grimes 1992). Legends claim that they are either the lost tribe of Israel or descendants of soldiers that came with Alexander the Great. This is not supported by current genetic data (Mansoor et al. 2004).
References:
- Kenneth K. Kidd et al. "Data unpublished".

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Originally prototyped by Michael Osier with the aid of Kei Cheung
Upgrades and maintenance since 2002 by Haseena Rajeevan