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Low levels of genetic divergence across geographically and linguistically diverse populations from India.
PLoS genetics - 1 Dec 2006
Rosenberg Noah A, Mahajan Saurabh, Gonzalez-Quevedo Catalina, Blum Michael G B, Nino-Rosales Laura, Ninis Vasiliki, Das Parimal, Hegde Madhuri, Molinari Laura, Zapata Gladys, Weber James L, Belmont John W, Patel Pragna I
Abstract excerpt
Ongoing modernization in India has elevated the prevalence of many complex genetic diseases associated with a western lifestyle and diet to near-epidemic proportions. However, although India comprises more than one sixth of the world's human population, it has largely been omitted from genomic surveys that provide the backdrop for association studies of genetic disease. Here, by genotyping India-born individuals...
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