Clinical Applications and Implications of Common and Founder Mutations in Indian Subpopulations
REVIEW OFFICIAL JOURNAL Clinical Applications and Implications of Common and Founder Mutations in Indian Subpopulations www.hgvs.org Arunkanth Ankala,1∗ † Parag M. Tamhankar,2 † C. Alexander Valencia,3,4 Krishna K. Rayam,5 Manisha M. Kumar,5 and Madhuri R. Hegde1 1Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia; 2ICMR Genetic Research Center, National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; 3Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; 4Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati Medical School, Cincinnati, Ohio; 5Department of Biosciences, CMR Institute of Management Studies, Bangalore, Karnataka, India Communicated by Arupa Ganguly Received 24 October 2013; accepted revised manuscript 16 September 2014. Published online 27 November 2014 in Wiley Online Library (www.wiley.com/humanmutation). DOI: 10.1002/humu.22704 that include a lack of widespread awareness about genetic disorders in the general population and the scarcity of specialized medical ABSTRACT: South Asian Indians represent a sixth of the world’s population and are a racially, geographically, and professionals and affordable genetic tests. Seeking a molecular di- genetically diverse people. Their unique anthropological agnosis and understanding the risk estimates are critical to making structure, prevailing caste system, and ancient religious sound reproductive choices, especially in families with an affected practices have all impacted the genetic composition of most individual. Adding to this adversity is the absence of a properly func- of the current-day Indian population. With the evolving tioning social health care system and insufficient encouragement socio-religious and economic activities of the subsects and of individual health insurance by the government.
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