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16899170
TITLE
Empirical evaluation of the genetic similarity of samples from twin registries in Australia and the Netherlands using 359 STRP markers.
ABSTRACT
One way to achieve the large sample sizes required for genetic studies of complex traits is to combine samples collected by different groups. It is not often clear, however, whether this practice is reasonable from a genetic perspective. To assess the comparability of samples from the Australian and the Netherlands twin studies, we estimated Fst (the proportion of total genetic variability attributable to genetic differences between cohorts) based on 359 short tandem repeat polymorphisms in 1068 individuals. Fst was estimated to be 0.30% between the Australian and the Netherlands cohorts, a smaller value than between many European groups. We conclude that it is reasonable to combine the Australian and the Netherlands samples for joint genetic analyses.
DATE PUBLISHED
2006 Aug
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
pubmed 2006/08/11 09:00
medline 2006/10/13 09:00
entrez 2006/08/11 09:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Sullivan PF Sullivan Patrick F PF Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7264, United States of America. pfsulliv@med.unc.edu
Montgomery GW Montgomery Grant W GW
Hottenga JJ Hottenga Jouke Jan JJ
Wray NR Wray Naomi R NR
Boomsma DI Boomsma Dorret I DI
Martin NG Martin Nicholas G NG
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 9
ISSUE: 4
TITLE: Twin research and human genetics : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies
ISOABBREVIATION: Twin Res Hum Genet
YEAR: 2006
MONTH: Aug
DAY:
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 1832-4274
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Twin Res Hum Genet
COUNTRY: England
ISSNLINKING: 1832-4274
NLMUNIQUEID: 101244624
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Comparative Study
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GRANTID AGENCY COUNTRY
MH059160 NIMH NIH HHS United States
MH074027 NIMH NIH HHS United States
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Australia
Cohort Studies
Female
Humans
Male
Netherlands
Polymorphism, Genetic
Registries
Sample Size
Tandem Repeat Sequences genetics
Twin Studies as Topic genetics
Twins genetics
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
OTHER ID's