Uganda Genome Resource Enables Insights into Population History and Genomic Discovery in Africa

doi:10.1016/J.CELL.2019.10.004

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Uganda Genome Resource Enables Insights into Population History and Genomic Discovery in Africa

Deepti Gurdasani, +68 more

- 31 Oct 2019 -

Cell

- Vol. 179, Iss: 4, pp 984

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The largest study of its kind, comprising genome-wide data from 6,400 individuals and whole-genome sequences from rural Uganda, finds evidence of geographically correlated fine-scale population substructure.

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This article is published in Cell.The article was published on 2019-10-31 and is currently open access. It has received 128 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Population & Imputation (genetics).

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