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Reference Population Design and the Illusion of Genetic Intermediacy in Mediterranean Population Models

2026-01-28

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Genome wide analyses of human populations rely on reference panels to infer ancestry and historical relationships, yet the sensitivity of downstream inference to reference population composition is not always evaluated directly. In this study, I test how asymmetric reference population design can produce the appearance of genetic intermediacy in Mediterranean population models, using Ashkenazi Jewish populations a...

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Literature Corpus work: 4413fba1-6fef-519f-8e4e-a5c8f4273e03
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202601.2134.v1

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