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- Title
Geography and genography: prediction of continental origin using randomly selected single nucleotide polymorphisms.
- Authors
Allocco, Dominic J; Song, Qing; Gibbons, Gary H; Ramoni, Marco F; Kohane, Isaac S
- Abstract
Recent studies have shown that when individuals are grouped on the basis of genetic similarity, group membership corresponds closely to continental origin. There has been considerable debate about the implications of these findings in the context of larger debates about race and the extent of genetic variation between groups. Some have argued that clustering according to continental origin demonstrates the existence of significant genetic differences between groups and that these differences may have important implications for differences in health and disease. Others argue that clustering according to continental origin requires the use of large amounts of genetic data or specifically chosen markers and is indicative only of very subtle genetic differences that are unlikely to have biomedical significance.
- Publication
BMC genomics, 2007, Vol 8, p68
- ISSN
1471-2164
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1186/1471-2164-8-68