Runs of homozygosity do not influence survival to old age.

Runs of homozygosity (ROH) are extended tracts of adjacent homozygous single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that are more common in unrelated individuals than previously thought. It has been proposed that estimating ROH on a genome-wide level, by making use of the genome-wide single nucleotide poly...

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Main Authors: Maris Kuningas, Ruth McQuillan, James F Wilson, Albert Hofman, Cornelia M van Duijn, André G Uitterlinden, Henning Tiemeier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21799906/pdf/?tool=EBI