The peopling of Britain (original) (raw)

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This fine resolution was made possible by the unique cohort and the recently described sensitive statistical population genetic methodology. The cohort was generated as part of the People of the British Isles project. The authors used single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data from 2,000 Caucasian individuals from all over Britain whose grandparents were born within 80 km of each other. This means that, in effect, the study captures genetic information before the great population movements of the twentieth century.

Of course, no population of the size of that in the British Isles exists in isolation, so in order to understand the genetic impact from the European continent, the authors also included SNP data from around 6,000 individuals from 10 European countries.

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Skipper, M. The peopling of Britain.Nat Rev Genet 16, 256–257 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg3938

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