Extreme distribution of deleterious variation in a historically small and isolated population-insights from the Greenlandic Inuit
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4 Casper-Emil T. Pedersen*, Kirk E. Lohmueller, Niels Grarup, Peter Bjerregaard, 5 Torben Hansen, Hans R. Siegismund*, Ida Moltke*, and Anders Albrechtsen* 6 7 Department of Biology, Section for Computational and RNA Biology, University of 8 Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark 9 10 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los 11 Angeles, CA 90095, United States 12 13 Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of 14 California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States 15 16 The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, 17 Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of 18 Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen E, Denmark 19 20 National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, 21 1353 Copenhagen K, Denmark 22 23 24
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