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Heritability of complex traits in sub-populations experiencing bottlenecks and growth.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Jul 2024
Taylor Cameron S, Lawson Daniel J
Abstract excerpt
Populations that have experienced a bottleneck are regularly used in Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) to investigate variants associated with complex traits. It is generally understood that these isolated sub-populations may experience high frequency of otherwise rare variants with large effect size, and therefore provide a unique opportunity to study said trait. However, the demographic history of the...
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