A proposed new metric to quantify genetic dissimilarities between an individual and a training population

A team of bioinformatics researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. and Aarhus University in Denmark is proposing a new metric to quantify genetic dissimilarities between an individual and a training population. Their study is reported in the journal Nature. The editors at Nature have also published a Research Briefing in the same journal issue outlining the work done by the team on this effort.