ALFRED: an allele frequency database for diverse populations and DNA polymorphism - an update

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 communit ies. Currently ALFRED has information on over 180 polymorphic sites for mor e than 70 populations. Since our initial release of the database we have fo cussed on increasing the quantity and quality of data, making reciprocal li nks 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 f rom ALFRED directly (http://alfred.med.yale.edu/alfred/ index.asp).