Both rare and common genetic variants contribute to autism in the Faroe Islands

Genetic background of the Faroese population. a Geographic localization of the Faroe Islands. b Multidimensional scaling plots (MDS) of genome-wide identity by state (IBS) pairwise distances between 1000 Genomes and Faroese populations. Each dot represents an individual and the distance between two dots corresponds to genetic distance based on genome-wide pairwise IBS calculations. c Degree of inbreeding across 1000 Genomes and Faroese populations. The inbreeding coefficients of the Faroe non-autism control individuals (n？=？176) were compared to the 1000 Genomes populations. The 26 populations from 1000 Genomes project are described in S1 Appendix. Logarithmic scale was used for y-axi