South Asian medical cohorts reveal strong founder effects and high rates of homozygosity.
Wall JD, Sathirapongsasuti JF, Gupta R, Rasheed A, Venkatesan R, Belsare S, Menon R, Phalke S, Mittal A, Fang J, Tanneeru D, Deshmukh M, Bassi A, Robinson J, Chaudhary R, Murugan S, Ul-Asar Z, Saleem I, Ishtiaq U, Fatima A, Sheikh SS, Hameed S, Ishaq M, Rasheed SZ, Memon FU, Jalal A, Abbas S, Frossard P, Fuchsberger C, Forer L, Schoenherr S, Bei Q, Bhangale T, Tom J, Gadde SGK, B V P, Naik NK, Wang M, Kwok PY, Khera AV, Lakshmi BR, Butterworth AS, Chowdhury R, Danesh J, di Angelantonio E, Naheed A, Goyal V, Kandadai RM, Kumar H, Borgohain R, Mukherjee A, Wadia PM, Yadav R, Desai S, Kumar N, Biswas A, Pal PK, Muthane UB, Das SK, Ramprasad VL, Kukkle PL, Seshagiri S, Kathiresan S, Ghosh A, Mohan V, Saleheen D, Stawiski EW, Peterson AS.
Wall JD, et al.
Nat Commun. 2023 Jun 8;14(1):3377. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-38766-1.
Nat Commun. 2023.
PMID: 37291107
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We characterize population structure in South Asia and describe a genotyping array (SARGAM) and imputation reference panel that are optimized for South Asian genomes. ...Founder effects increase the power to associate functional variants with disease processes and make Sou …
We characterize population structure in South Asia and describe a genotyping array (SARGAM) and imputation reference panel that are o …