Croatian medical journal
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Croatian medical journal · Aug 2006
Overview of genetic-epidemiological studies in ethnically and demographically diverse isolates of Dagestan, Northern Caucasus, Russia.
To assess genetic diversity and genetic distances among isolated populations from Dagestan. ⋯ The results support the hypothesis that cross-population design provides unique opportunities for observing reliable ancestral haplotypes with disease predisposing loci, as well as population-specific linked loci.