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Purging of deleterious variants due to drift and founder effect in Italian populations with extended...

Purging of deleterious variants due to drift and founder effect in Italian populations with extended...

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Purging of deleterious variants due to drift and founder effect in Italian populations with extended autozygosity

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Purging of deleterious variants due to drift and founder effect in Italian populations with extended autozygosity

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

Journal title

bioRxiv, 2015-10

Language

English

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Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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Contents

Purging through inbreeding occurs when consanguineous marriages increases the rate at which deleterious alleles are present in a homozygous state. In this study we carried out low-read depth (4-10x) whole-genome sequencing in 568 individuals from three Italian founder populations, and compared it to data from other Italian and European populations...

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Full title

Purging of deleterious variants due to drift and founder effect in Italian populations with extended autozygosity

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2070804689

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2070804689

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E-ISSN

2692-8205

DOI

10.1101/022947