The impact of divergence time on the nature of population structure: an example from Iceland.
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- Price, Alkes L; Helgason, Agnar; Palsson, Snaebjorn; Stefansson, Hreinn; St Clair, David; Andreassen, Ole A; Reich, David; Kong, Augustine; Stefansson, Kari
- Year
- 2009
- Journal
- PLoS genetics
- PMID
- 19503599
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- 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000505
- PMCID
- PMC2684636
The Icelandic population has been sampled in many disease association studies, providing a strong motivation to understand the structure of this population and its ramifications for disease gene mapping. Previous work using 40 microsatellites showed that the Icelandic population is relatively homogeneous, but exhibits subtle population structure that can bias disease association statistics. Here, we show that regional geographic ancestries of individuals from Iceland can be distinguished using 292,289 autosomal single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). We further show that subpopulation differences are due to genetic drift since the settlement of Iceland 1100 years ago, and not to varying contributions from different ancestral populations. A consequence of the recent origin of Icelandic population structure is that allele frequency differences follow a null distribution devoid of outliers, so that the risk of false positive associations due to stratification is minimal. Our results highlight an important distinction between population differences attributable to recent drift and those arising from more ancient divergence, which has implications both for association studies and for efforts to detect natural selection using population differentiation.
Map of 11 regions of Iceland, color-coded to match Figures 2 and 3.The interior region is not numbered, as it is uninhabited. Sample sizes for each region are listed in Table 1.
PCA plots of (A) samples with most of their ancestry from 11 regions of Iceland and (B) samples with most of their ancestry from 11 regions of Iceland, together with a set of 250 randomly selected Icelandic samples.
PCA plot of samples from Norway and Scotland projected onto PCs computed using samples with most of their ancestry from 11 regions of Iceland.
P-P plots of allele frequency differentiation between region r and the union of all other regions, for each value of r ().
P-P plot of allele frequency differentiation between Norway and Scotland.The nine SNPs from Table 3 are displayed as squares.
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