Ancestry-inspired genomic health

Nature Genetics 49, 1287 (2017).
doi:10.1038/ng.3953

A solution to screening for recessive heritable disorders and identifying genetic influences on common diseases is to be found in the history of one of the world's most populous regions. Large South Asian populations are a mosaic of smaller populations, many of which have founder effects as extreme as those in the European isolates that first inspired genetic medicine.

Source: Nature Genetics - August 30, 2017 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: Editorial Source Type: research