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The promise of discovering population-specific disease-associated genes in South Asia
- Nakatsuka, Nathan;
- Moorjani, Priya;
- Rai, Niraj;
- Sarkar, Biswanath;
- Tandon, Arti;
- Patterson, Nick;
- Bhavani, Gandham SriLakshmi;
- Girisha, Katta Mohan;
- Mustak, Mohammed S;
- Srinivasan, Sudha;
- Kaushik, Amit;
- Vahab, Saadi Abdul;
- Jagadeesh, Sujatha M;
- Satyamoorthy, Kapaettu;
- Singh, Lalji;
- Reich, David;
- Thangaraj, Kumarasamy
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https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3917Abstract
Kumarasamy Thangaraj, David Reich and colleagues identify 81 South Asian groups descended from extreme founder events, including 14 with a census size of over 1 million people, thus providing an opportunity to test for and decrease the burden of recessive genetic diseases in these populations.
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