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Isolated populations as treasure troves in genetic epidemiology: the case of the Basques.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Nov 2009
Garagnani Paolo, Laayouni Hafid, González-Neira Anna, Sikora Martin, Luiselli Donata, Bertranpetit Jaume, Calafell Francesc
Abstract excerpt
The Basques are a culturally isolated population, living across the western border between France and Spain and speaking a non-Indo-European language. They show outlier allele frequencies in the ABO, RH, and HLA loci. To test whether Basques are a genetic isolate with the features that would make them good candidates in genetic association studies, we genotyped 123 SNPs in a 1-Mb region in chromosome 22 in Basque...
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