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A genome-wide survey does not show the genetic distinctiveness of Basques.
Human genetics - 1 Apr 2010
Laayouni Hafid, Calafell Francesc, Bertranpetit Jaume
Abstract excerpt
Basques are a cultural isolate, and, according to mainly allele frequencies of classical polymorphisms, also a genetic isolate. We investigated the differentiation of Spanish Basques from the rest of Iberian populations by means of a dense, genome-wide SNP array. We found that F (ST) distances between Spanish Basques and other populations were similar to those between pairs of non-Basque populations. The same...
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