Department of Human Sciences, ABO Center Inc., Tokyo, Japan
Research Article
New Perspective on GWAS: East Asian Populations from the Viewpoint of Selection Pressure and Linear Algebra with AI
Author(s): Masayuki Kanazawa*
Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) are useful for comparing the characteristics of different human
population groups. However, genomes can change rapidly over time when there is a strong selection pressure, such
as a pandemic. The genetic information related to the immune system is thought to be very sensitive to such diseases.
Therefore, it may be necessary to conduct not only the standard whole-genome GWAS but also a more detailed,
chromosome-focused GWAS.
In this study, we compared chromosomes of immune system genes to those that are not thought to be related to the
immune system, and analyzed GWAS results for SNPs in each chromosome to examine the differences. In order
to keep the sample conditions as identical as possible, we limited the comparisons and the analyses to a few groups
for which population movements were easy to interpret, and we also.. View more»