British from England and Scotland [GBR]
The biomaterials currently available for this population are shown in the table below:
| Population |
British from England and Scotland [GBR] |
| Individual DNA Samples |
96 |
| Individual Cell Cultures |
96 |
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Principal Investigators:
Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Peter Donnelly, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Population Description
These cell lines and DNA samples were prepared from blood samples collected in Cornwall and Kent (England) and Orkney and Argyll & Bute (Scotland), as part of a larger ongoing project (The People of the British Isles - A UK Control population). All of the samples are from unrelated individuals who identified themselves as having all four of their grandparents born in the same rural area; each rural area was generally defined as being less than 40 miles apart from the next rural area. These samples can be considered representative of the areas in the UK from which they were collected.
It may be scientifically appropriate to pool data from these samples with data from other ancestrally related groups, when the data show that the groups have similar allele frequencies. If the groups all have European ancestry, the designation “European ancestry” (EURA) to describe the combined analysis panel is recommended. If only groups very closely related to the British have similar allele frequencies, then another abbreviation may be used.
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