Do dental nonmetric traits actually work as proxies for neutral genomic data? Some answers from continental- and global-level analyses.

Joel D IrishAdeline MorezLinus Girdland FlinkEmma L W PhillipsG Richard Scott

Published in: American journal of physical anthropology (2020)

Relative to prior studies, MMD/F ST correlations imply greater dental and genetic correspondence; for studies allowing direct comparison, the present correlations are markedly stronger. The implication is that ASUDAS traits are reliable proxies for genetic data-a positive conclusion, meaning they can be used with or instead of genomic markers when the latter are unavailable.

Keyphrases

genome wide
copy number
electronic health record
oral health
big data
dna methylation
case control
data analysis
gene expression
deep learning