The Big (Genetic) Sort? A Research Note on Migration Patterns and Their Genetic Imprint in the United Kingdom.
Demography
; 60(6): 1649-1664, 2023 Dec 01.
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| ID: mdl-37942709
ABSTRACT
This research note reinvestigates Abdellaoui et al.'s (2019) findings that genetically selective migration may lead to persistent and accumulating socioeconomic and health inequalities between types (coal mining or non-coal mining) of places in the United Kingdom. Their migration measure classified migrants who moved to the same type of place (coal mining to coal mining or non-coal mining to non-coal mining) into "stay" categories, preventing them from distinguishing migrants from nonmigrants. We reinvestigate the question of genetically selective migration by examining migration patterns between places rather than place types and find genetic selectivity in whether people migrate and where. For example, we find evidence of positive selection people with genetic variants correlated with better education moved from non-coal mining to coal mining places with our measure of migration. Such findings were obscured in earlier work that could not distinguish nonmigrants from migrants.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Transients and Migrants
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
En
Journal:
Demography
Year:
2023
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United States