Nature-Article: "Largest-ever family tree" [Englisch]

[Christian Benz]

Genome hacker uncovers largest-ever family tree

Gigantic genealogy linking 13 million people sheds light on how genes influence complex traits.

http://www.nature.com/news/genome-hacker-uncovers-largest-ever-family-tree-1.14037

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Gruß,
Christian

[Acanthurus]

“For these giant pedigrees, we just don’t believe them beyond a certain date.” Cannon-Albright says that she cuts off her data at the year 1500.

Guter Ansatz ;-)

[Joanna]

"The team assembled the data into family trees that ranged from a few thousand individuals up to 13 million people in size. Erlich says that pedigrees previously available for genetic studies contained hundreds of thousands of family members at best."

Da hätte ich gern mal Mäuschen gespielt, wir das Team das hinbekommen hat. Das schaffen ja viele noch nicht einmal bei ihrer direkten Forschung!

"Erlich’s team used this cross-referencing technique to discover the identities of five men whose genomes were sequenced and released as part of the 1,000 Genomes Project, and who had also participated in a project that studied Mormon families from Utah. He was also able to discover the identities of their male and female relatives."

War man da nicht bis Eva und Adam gkommen?

Aber warum nicht

Joanna