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Genetic Ancestry and Affinity of a Local Population in Southern Thailand Using Whole-Exome Sequencing.

  • Pongsakorn Choochuen1
  • Surasak Sangkhathat2
  • Nattanan Sukpan3
  • Kamonnat Singkhamanan1
  • Monwadee Wonglapsuwan4
  • Panupong Sukpan5
  • Komwit Surachat1
5 affiliations
  1. 1Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai 90110, Songkhla, Thailand.
  2. 2Department of Research, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10700, Thailand.
  3. 3Tak Bai Hospital, Tak Bai, Narathiwat 96110, Thailand.
  4. 4Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai 90110, Songkhla, Thailand.
  5. 5Medical Education Center, Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra Hospital, Narathiwat 96000, Thailand.
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Abstract

Population-specific genomic references remain limited for many Southeast Asian communities, particularly in Southern Thailand. We characterized the broad genetic affinity of 24 unrelated adults from Che He Subdistrict, Tak Bai District, Narathiwat Province, using whole-exome sequencing. Reads were processed against GRCh38, and population structure was assessed using reference-defined principal component analysis (PCA), ADMIXTURE, pairwise FST, EthSEQ, and KING-based relatedness analysis. A mean of 114.5 million reads per participant was retained (99.03%), with 99.98-99.99% mapping and a mean depth of 117.07× across the manufacturer-defined Agilent V8 targets. Joint genotyping identified 421,801 PASS variants. For expanded analysis, 24 Che He samples were compared with 3380 high-quality unrelated HGDP-1000 Genomes references. Group-specific missingness control retained 183,930 callable autosomal SNPs; reference-only minor-allele-frequency filtering and LD pruning retained 43,353 SNPs for projection. Che He clustered within the East Asian reference space, with its centroid closest to Cambodian across higher-dimensional summaries. Unpruned Weir-Cockerham FST was also lowest versus Cambodian (0.00256), followed by Dai (0.00892), KHV (0.00956), CDX (0.01149), and Lahu (0.01202). These results indicate relative genetic proximity within the available reference panel and should not be interpreted as definitive ancestry or ethnicity assignment.

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@article{choochuen2026genetic,
  title = {{Genetic Ancestry and Affinity of a Local Population in Southern Thailand Using Whole-Exome Sequencing.}},
  author = {Pongsakorn Choochuen and Surasak Sangkhathat and Nattanan Sukpan and Kamonnat Singkhamanan and Monwadee Wonglapsuwan and Panupong Sukpan and Komwit Surachat},
  journal = {Life (Basel, Switzerland)},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.3390/life16101651},
  url = {https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42942237},
  note = {CC BY},
}
RIS
TY  - JOUR
TI  - Genetic Ancestry and Affinity of a Local Population in Southern Thailand Using Whole-Exome Sequencing.
AU  - Pongsakorn Choochuen
AU  - Surasak Sangkhathat
AU  - Nattanan Sukpan
AU  - Kamonnat Singkhamanan
AU  - Monwadee Wonglapsuwan
AU  - Panupong Sukpan
AU  - Komwit Surachat
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/30
JO  - Life (Basel, Switzerland)
DO  - 10.3390/life16101651
UR  - https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42942237
AB  - Population-specific genomic references remain limited for many Southeast Asian communities, particularly in Southern Thailand. We characterized the broad genetic affinity of 24 unrelated adults from Che He Subdistrict, Tak Bai District, Narathiwat Province, using whole-exome sequencing. Reads were processed against GRCh38, and population structure was assessed using reference-defined principal component analysis (PCA), ADMIXTURE, pairwise FST, EthSEQ, and KING-based relatedness analysis. A mean of 114.5 million reads per participant was retained (99.03%), with 99.98-99.99% mapping and a mean depth of 117.07× across the manufacturer-defined Agilent V8 targets. Joint genotyping identified 421,801 PASS variants. For expanded analysis, 24 Che He samples were compared with 3380 high-quality unrelated HGDP-1000 Genomes references. Group-specific missingness control retained 183,930 callable autosomal SNPs; reference-only minor-allele-frequency filtering and LD pruning retained 43,353 SNPs for projection. Che He clustered within the East Asian reference space, with its centroid closest to Cambodian across higher-dimensional summaries. Unpruned Weir-Cockerham FST was also lowest versus Cambodian (0.00256), followed by Dai (0.00892), KHV (0.00956), CDX (0.01149), and Lahu (0.01202). These results indicate relative genetic proximity within the available reference panel and should not be interpreted as definitive ancestry or ethnicity assignment.
SN  - 2075-1729
ER  -