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Genetic landscape of the people of India: a canvas for disease gene exploration

IR@IGIB: CSIR-Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, New Delhi

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Title Genetic landscape of the people of India: a canvas for disease gene exploration
 
Creator Indian Genome Variation Consortium, Indian Genome Variation Consortium
 
Subject BI1 Bioinformatics (General)
 
Description Analyses of frequency profiles of markers on disease or drug-response related genes in diverse populations are important for the dissection of common diseases. We report the results of analyses of data on 405 SNPs from 75 such genes and a 5.2 Mb chromosome, 22 genomic region in 1871 individuals from diverse 55 endogamous Indian populations. These include 32 large (>10 million individuals) and 23 isolated populations, representing a large fraction of the people of India. We observe high levels of genetic divergence between groups of populations that cluster largely on the basis of ethnicity and language. Indian populations not only overlap with the diversity of HapMap populations, but also contain population groups that are genetically distinct. These data and results are useful for addressing stratification and study design issues in complex traits especially for heterogeneous populations.
 
Date 2008-04
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://openaccess.igib.res.in/119/1/IGVdb_2.pdf
Indian Genome Variation Consortium, Indian Genome Variation Consortium (2008) Genetic landscape of the people of India: a canvas for disease gene exploration. INDIAN GENOME VARIATION CONSORTIUM, 87 (1). pp. 3-20.
 
Relation http://openaccess.igib.res.in/119/