An integrated personal and population-based Egyptian genome reference

North Africans are underrepresented in current genome-wide data sets. Here, the authors provide an Egyptian genome reference, consisting of de novo assembly of the genome of an Egyptian individual and genome-wide genetic variation from a representative cohort of 110 Egyptian individuals.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Inken Wohlers, Axel Künstner, Matthias Munz, Michael Olbrich, Anke Fähnrich, Verónica Calonga-Solís, Caixia Ma, Misa Hirose, Shaaban El-Mosallamy, Mohamed Salama, Hauke Busch, Saleh Ibrahim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17964-1