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Genes predict village of origin in rural Europe
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Genes predict village of origin in rural Europe

C O'Dushlaine, R McQuillan, ME Weale, DJ Crouch, A Johansson, Y Aulchenko, CS Franklin, O Polašek, Christian Fuchsberger, A Corvin, …
European Journal of Human Genetics, Vol.18(11), pp.1269-1270
18
2010
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/10863/6346
PMID: 20571506

Abstract

The genetic structure of human populations is important in population genetics, forensics and medicine. Using genome-wide scans and individuals with all four grandparents born in the same settlement, we here demonstrate remarkable geographical structure across 8-30  km in three different parts of rural Europe. After excluding close kin and inbreeding, village of origin could still be predicted correctly on the basis of genetic data for 89-100% of individuals.

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