Parental relatedness through time revealed by runs of homozygosity in ancient DNA

Little is known about how human parental relatedness varied across ancient populations. Runs of homozygosity (ROH) in the offspring’s genome can give clues. Here, the authors present a method to identify ROH in ancient genomes and infer low rates of close kin unions across most ancient populations....

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Main Authors: Harald Ringbauer, John Novembre, Matthias Steinrücken
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25289-w