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Relationships between estimated autozygosity and complex traits in the UK Biobank.
PLoS genetics - 1 Jul 2018
Johnson Emma C, Evans Luke M, Keller Matthew C
Abstract excerpt
Inbreeding increases the risk of certain Mendelian disorders in humans but may also reduce fitness through its effects on complex traits and diseases. Such inbreeding depression is thought to occur due to increased homozygosity at causal variants that are recessive with respect to fitness. Until recently it has been difficult to amass large enough sample sizes to investigate the effects of inbreeding depression...
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