Analysis of genetic variation in Ashkenazi Jews by high density SNP genotyping

Adam B Olshen¹ , Bert Gold⁶ , Kirk E Lohmueller⁸ , Jeffery P Struewing⁷ , Jaya Satagopan¹ , Stefan A Stefanov⁶ , Eleazar Eskin⁹ , Tomas Kirchhoff³ , James A Lautenberger⁶ , Robert J Klein⁴ , Eitan Friedman¹⁰ , Larry Norton³ , Nathan A Ellis¹¹ , Agnes Viale⁵ , Catherine S Lee² , Patrick I Borgen² , Andrew G Clark⁸ , Kenneth Offit³ and Jeff Boyd^2,3

¹Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

²Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

³Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

⁴Programs in Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

⁵Molecular Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

⁶Laboratories of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA

⁷Population Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA

⁸Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

⁹Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

¹⁰Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

¹¹Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA