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Population-genetic influences on genomic estimates of the inbreeding coefficient: a global perspective.
Human heredity - 1 Jan 2014
Pemberton Trevor J, Rosenberg Noah A
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BACKGROUND/AIMS: Culturally driven marital practices provide a key instance of an interaction between social and genetic processes in shaping patterns of human genetic variation, producing, for example, increased identity by descent through consanguineous marriage. A commonly used measure to quantify identity by descent in an individual is the inbreeding coefficient, a quantity that reflects not only...
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