Measures of autozygosity in decline: globalization, urbanization, and its implications for medical genetics.

This research investigates the influence of demographic factors on human genetic sub-structure. In our discovery cohort, we show significant demographic trends for decreasing autozygosity associated with population variation in chronological age. Autozygosity, the genomic signature of consanguinity,...

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Main Authors: Michael A Nalls, Javier Simon-Sanchez, J Raphael Gibbs, Coro Paisan-Ruiz, Jose Tomas Bras, Toshiko Tanaka, Mar Matarin, Sonja Scholz, Charles Weitz, Tamara B Harris, Luigi Ferrucci, John Hardy, Andrew B Singleton
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Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/f0509b98fc484dd9880240b36d4ff384
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