ALFRED:ALFRED:

A resource for research and teachingA resource for research and teaching

http://alfred.med.yale.edu/Haseena

Rajeevan1, Kei-Hoi Cheung2, Usha

Soundararajan1, Shannon Stein1, Andrew J. Pakstis1, Judith R. Kidd1, Kenneth K. Kidd1

1Department of Genetics and 2Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

OVERVIEWOVERVIEW

ALFREDALFRED,,

thethe

ALALlelelele

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is a free, webis a free, web--accessible, accessible, curatedcurated

compilation of over 1,100,000 allele compilation of over 1,100,000 allele frequencies for DNA sequence frequencies for DNA sequence polymorpolymor--

phismsphisms

in anthropologically defined human in anthropologically defined human populations. ALFRED is supported by a populations. ALFRED is supported by a grant from the U.S. National Science grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to be an international resource Foundation to be an international resource for research and teaching in physical for research and teaching in physical anthropology, human population genetics, anthropology, human population genetics, and any other field that can benefit from and any other field that can benefit from easy access to data that are otherwise easy access to data that are otherwise widely dispersed in the scientific literature.widely dispersed in the scientific literature.

http://alfred.med.yale.edu/

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