Population structure and effects of consanguinity on complex disease in British South Asians

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• Dr Hilary Martin from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge
• Thursday 08 June 2023, 14:00-15:00
• Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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Host - Richard Durbin

Previous genetic and public health research in the Pakistani population has focused on the role of consanguinity in increasing recessive disease risk, but little is known about its recent population history, the effects of endogamy, or effects of consanguinity on complex disease risk. I will first describe work we have done elucidating fine-scale population structure, history and consanguinity patterns using genotype chip data from 2,200 British Pakistanis from the Born in Bradford cohort. I will then present recent results demonstrating an effect of consanguinity on risk of several common diseases in three large cohorts (Genes & Health, comprising 50k British Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, UK Biobank, and 23andMe), including a new approach to deal with confounding.

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