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SUBMITTER: Mehrjoo Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6759149 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mehrjoo Zohreh Z Fattahi Zohreh Z Beheshtian Maryam M Mohseni Marzieh M Poustchi Hossein H Ardalani Fariba F Jalalvand Khadijeh K Arzhangi Sanaz S Mohammadi Zahra Z Khoshbakht Shahrouz S Najafi Farid F Nikuei Pooneh P Haddadi Mohammad M Zohrehvand Elham E Oladnabi Morteza M Mohammadzadeh Akbar A Jafari Mandana Hadi MH Akhtarkhavari Tara T Gooshki Ehsan Shamsi ES Haghdoost Aliakbar A Najafipour Reza R Niestroj Lisa-Marie LM Helwing Barbara B Gossmann Yasmina Y Toliat Mohammad Reza MR Malekzadeh Reza R Nürnberg Peter P Kahrizi Kimia K Najmabadi Hossein H Nothnagel Michael M
PLoS genetics 20190924 9
Iran, despite its size, geographic location and past cultural influence, has largely been a blind spot for human population genetic studies. With only sparse genetic information on the Iranian population available, we pursued its genome-wide and geographic characterization based on 1021 samples from eleven ethnic groups. We show that Iranians, while close to neighboring populations, present distinct genetic variation consistent with long-standing genetic continuity, harbor high heterogeneity and ...[more]