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Genotyping of geographically diverse Druze trios reveals substructure and a recent bottleneck.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Aug 2015
Zidan Jamal, Ben-Avraham Dan, Carmi Shai, Maray Taiseer, Friedman Eitan, Atzmon Gil
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Druze individuals rarely marry outside their faith (often practicing consanguinity) and are thus believed to form a genetic isolate. To comprehensively characterize the genetic structure of the Druze population, we recruited and genotyped 40 parent-offspring trios from the Upper Galilee in Israel and the Golan Heights, attempting to capture different extended families (clans) across various geographical...
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