7/7 Many thanks to the participants and the team at the Estonian Biobank @estbiobank.bsky.social, Vasili Pankratov, who led this study, and our amazing coauthors @ukuvainik.bsky.social, Mait Metspalu, Francesco Montinaro and Luca Pagani.
3/7 The dominant migration pattern driving this structure is movement to Estonia’s two largest cities: Tallinn and Tartu. POB and POR denote place of birth and place of residence.
2/7 Migration creates regional PGS differences even among siblings born in the same region.
Remember the famous UKB migration paper? We found that internal migration also shapes population structure in Estonia. Key patterns replicate within families.
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