The Big (Genetic) Sort? A Research Note on Migration Patterns and Their Genetic Imprint in the United Kingdom.

IF 3.6 1区社会学 Q1 DEMOGRAPHY

Demography Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI:10.1215/00703370-11054960

Shiro Furuya, Jihua Liu, Zhongxuan Sun, Qiongshi Lu, Jason M Fletcher

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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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大（基因）型？关于英国移民模式及其遗传印记的研究报告。

本研究报告对Abdelaoui et 等人（2019）的研究结果表明，基因选择性移民可能会导致英国不同类型（煤矿或非煤矿）地方之间持续不断的社会经济和健康不平等。他们的移民措施将搬到同一类型地方（煤矿到煤矿或非煤矿到非煤矿）的移民归类为“停留”类别，使他们无法区分移民和非移民。我们通过研究地方之间的迁移模式而不是地方类型来重新研究基因选择性迁移的问题，并发现人们是否迁移以及在哪里迁移的基因选择性。例如，我们发现了积极选择的证据：根据我们的移民测量，具有与更好的教育相关的基因变异的人从非煤矿转移到煤矿。这些发现在早期的工作中被掩盖了，这些工作无法区分非移民和移民。

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Demography DEMOGRAPHY-

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5.90

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2.90%

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