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Anne-Louise Leutenegger1, Mourad Sahbatou, Steven Gazal
1Inserm, U946, Paris, France. anne-louise.leutenegger@inserm.fr
Abstract:
Inbreeding coefficients and consanguineous mating types are usually inferred from population surveys or pedigree studies. Here, we present a method to estimate them from dense genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism genotypes and apply it to 940 unrelated individuals from the Human Genome Diversity Panel (HGDP-CEPH). Inbreeding is observed in almost all populations of the panel, and the highest inbreeding levels and frequencies of inbred individuals are found in populations of the Middle East, Central South Asia and the Americas. In these regions, first cousin (1C) marriages are the most frequent, but we also observed marriages between double first cousins (2 × 1C) and between avuncular (AV) pairs. Interestingly, if 2 × 1C marriages are preferred to AV marriages in Central South Asia and the Middle East, the contrary is found in the Americas. There are thus some regional trends but there are also some important differences between populations within a region. Individual results can be found on the CEPH website at ftp://ftp.cephb.fr/hgdp_hbd/.
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