A brief note on the resemblance between relatives in the presence of population stratification.

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Population stratification occurs when a study population is comprised of several sub-populations, and can result in increased false positive findings in genomewide-association studies. Recently published work shows that sub-population-specific positive assortative mating at the genotypic level results in population stratification. We show that if the allele frequency of a single nucleotide polymorphism...

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