Quantitative analysis of population-scale family trees with millions of relatives

• Published in: Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 360; no. 6385; pp. 171 - 175
• Main Authors: Kaplanis, Joanna, Gordon, Assaf, Shor, Tal, Weissbrod, Omer, Geiger, Dan, Wahl, Mary, Gershovits, Michael, Markus, Barak, Sheikh, Mona, Gymrek, Melissa, Bhatia, Gaurav, MacArthur, Daniel G, Price, Alkes L, Erlich, Yaniv
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States The American Association for the Advancement of Science 13.04.2018
• Subjects: Anthropology; Architecture; Data Use; Datasets as Topic; Family; Family (Sociological Unit); Family trees; Genealogy; Genealogy and Heraldry; Genetic diversity; Genetic effects; Genetics; Heredity; Heritability; Humans; Life span; Longevity; Migration; Migration Patterns; Models, Genetic; Pedigree; Population; Quantitative analysis

Family trees have vast applications in fields as diverse as genetics, anthropology, and economics. However, the collection of extended family trees is tedious and usually relies on resources with limited geographical scope and complex data usage restrictions. We collected 86 million profiles from pu...