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Genome-wide inbreeding estimation within Lebanese communities using SNP arrays.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Oct 2015
Jalkh Nadine, Sahbatou Mourad, Chouery Eliane, Megarbane André, Leutenegger Anne-Louise, Serre Jean-Louis
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Consanguineous marriages have been widely practiced in several global communities with varying rates depending on religion, culture, and geography. In consanguineous marriages, parents pass to their children autozygous segments known as homozygous by descent segments. In this study, single-nucleotide polymorphisms were analyzed in 165 unrelated Lebanese people from Greek Orthodox, Maronite, Shiite and Sunni...
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