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ALFRED: an allele frequency database for diverse populations and DNA polymorphismsan update
Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, PO Box 208005, New Haven, CT 06520-8005, USA and 1Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, PO Box 208009, New Haven, CT 06520-8009, USA
ALFRED (the ALelle FREquency Database) is designed to store and disseminate frequencies of alleles at human polymorphic sites for multiple populations, primarily for the population genetics and molecular anthropology communities. Currently ALFRED has information on over 180 polymorphic sites for more than 70 populations. Since our initial release of the database we have focussed on increasing the quantity and quality of data, making reciprocal links between ALFRED and other related databases, and providing useful tools to make the data more comprehensible to the end user. ALFRED is accessible from the Kidd Lab home page (http://info.med.yale.edu/genetics/kkidd/) or from ALFRED directly (http://alfred.med.yale.edu/alfred/index.asp).
* To whom correspondence should be addressed: Tel: +1 203 785 2654; Fax: +1 203 785 6568; Email: kidd{at}biomed.med.yale.edu