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European super-population (EUR)

Definition
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European super-population in 1000 Genomes Phase 3, grouping CEU, FIN, GBR, IBS, and TSI populations.

Why it matters in GWAS

Super-population labels from 1000 Genomes are commonly used for ancestry-aware QC, PCA interpretation, LD reference selection, and cross-population portability checks.

Example usage

"Samples were projected to the EUR reference panel before downstream GWAS and imputation analysis."

References

  • 1000 Genomes Project Consortium. (2015). A global reference for human genetic variation. Nature.

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