Article
Haplotype Sharing Provides Insights into Fine-Scale Population History and Disease in Finland.
American journal of human genetics - 3 May 2018
Martin Alicia R, Karczewski Konrad J, Kerminen Sini, Kurki Mitja I, Sarin Antti-Pekka, Artomov Mykyta, Eriksson Johan G, Esko Tõnu, Genovese Giulio, Havulinna Aki S, Kaprio Jaakko, Konradi Alexandra, Korányi László, Kostareva Anna, Männikkö Minna, Metspalu Andres, Perola Markus, Prasad Rashmi B, Raitakari Olli, Rotar Oxana, Salomaa Veikko, Groop Leif, Palotie Aarno, Neale Benjamin M, Ripatti Samuli, Pirinen Matti, Daly Mark J
Abstract excerpt
Finland provides unique opportunities to investigate population and medical genomics because of its adoption of unified national electronic health records, detailed historical and birth records, and serial population bottlenecks. We assembled a comprehensive view of recent population history (≤100 generations), the timespan during which most rare-disease-causing alleles arose, by comparing pairwise haplotype...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
