Journal
GENOME BIOLOGY
Volume 19, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-018-1396-2
Keywords
Genomics; Genome-wide association studies; GWAS Catalog; Ancestry; Diversity; Population genetics
Funding
- National Human Genome Research Institute
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health [U41-HG007823, U41-HG006104]
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory
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The accurate description of ancestry is essential to interpret, access, and integrate human genomics data, and to ensure that these benefit individuals from all ancestral backgrounds. However, there are no established guidelines for the representation of ancestry information. Here we describe a framework for the accurate and standardized description of sample ancestry, and validate it by application to the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog. We confirm known biases and gaps in diversity, and find that African and Hispanic or Latin American ancestry populations contribute a disproportionately high number of associations. It is our hope that widespread adoption of this framework will lead to improved analysis, interpretation, and integration of human genomics data.
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