Nature Communications (Dec 2021)

Fine-scale population structure and demographic history of British Pakistanis

  • Elena Arciero,
  • Sufyan A. Dogra,
  • Daniel S. Malawsky,
  • Massimo Mezzavilla,
  • Theofanis Tsismentzoglou,
  • Qin Qin Huang,
  • Karen A. Hunt,
  • Dan Mason,
  • Saghira Malik Sharif,
  • David A. van Heel,
  • Eamonn Sheridan,
  • John Wright,
  • Neil Small,
  • Shai Carmi,
  • Mark M. Iles,
  • Hilary C. Martin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27394-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Little is known about the recent population history or the effects of endogamy on the Pakistani population. Here the authors examine the impact of the biraderi social stratification system on the population structure of individuals of British Pakistani ancestry in the Born in Bradford cohort.