Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

An integrated personal and population-based Egyptian genome reference

  • Inken Wohlers,
  • Axel Künstner,
  • Matthias Munz,
  • Michael Olbrich,
  • Anke Fähnrich,
  • Verónica Calonga-Solís,
  • Caixia Ma,
  • Misa Hirose,
  • Shaaban El-Mosallamy,
  • Mohamed Salama,
  • Hauke Busch,
  • Saleh Ibrahim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17964-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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North Africans are underrepresented in current genome-wide data sets. Here, the authors provide an Egyptian genome reference, consisting of de novo assembly of the genome of an Egyptian individual and genome-wide genetic variation from a representative cohort of 110 Egyptian individuals.