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Autozygosity_pilot___QMUL

The offspring of first cousin marriages have ~6% of their genome autozygous, i.e. homozygous identical by descent, or even more if there was further consanguinity in their ancestry. In the UK there are large populations with very high first cousin marriage rates of 20-50%. Sequencing the exomes of a sample of these individuals has the potential both to support genetic health programmes in these populations, and to provide genetic research information about rare loss of function mutations. This pilot study based on existing British-Pakistani cohort samples will identify homozygous individuals for almost all variants down to an allele frequency around 1%, plus individuals carrying hundreds of new homozygous rare loss-of-function variants, and will support development of community relations and ethics for a wider study currently being designed. The data deposited in the EGA consists of low coverage whole exome sequencing on these samples.

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Dataset ID Description Technology Samples
EGAD00001001027 Illumina HiSeq 2000 130
Publications Citations
Health and population effects of rare gene knockouts in adult humans with related parents.
Science 352: 2016 474-477
174
Estimating the human mutation rate from autozygous segments reveals population differences in human mutational processes.
Nat Commun 8: 2017 303
44
Characterising a healthy adult with a rare HAO1 knockout to support a therapeutic strategy for primary hyperoxaluria.
Elife 9: 2020 e54363
31