Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
Purging of deleterious variants due to drift and founder effect in Italian populations with extended autozygosity
Massimiliano Cocca, Marc Pybus, Pier Francesco Palamara…·Vincenza Colonna
The paper analyzes whole-genome sequencing data from Italian founder populations to determine the cause of purging of deleterious variants, concluding that genetic drift and founder effect, not consanguinity, are responsible.
DOI 10.1101/022947