Extreme inbreeding in a European ancestry sample from the contemporary UK population

Mating between first or second-degree relatives is prohibited in most countries, yet it occurs and is under-studied. Here, Yengo et al. use large runs of homozygosity from the UK Biobank resource to provide DNA-based quantification of extreme inbreeding and its consequence for health and other compl...

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Main Authors: Loic Yengo, Naomi R. Wray, Peter M. Visscher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11724-6