The origin and uniqueness of Basque genetics revealed

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10. Their heterozygosity index is indeed on the low-end...

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... but not too horrible.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3118713/
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Heterozygosity levels in the Basque provinces were on the low end of the European distribution (0.805-0.812). The MDS plot of genetic distances revealed that the Basques differed from both the Caucasian and North African populations with respect to autosomal STR variation.
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I think that mine was around 1.6 when I used the "Are Your Parents Related?" tool on GEDmatch a few years ago, after uploading my raw DNA data there. The conclusion was that my parents weren't closely related at all, which agreed with my genealogical research that showed no common ancestors going back a minimum of 6 generations on all branches of my family tree.

I was mostly curious because I inherited an extremely rare genetic condition, and a doctor told me years ago that my parents were probably closely related for me to get two bad copies of the gene. Gee, thanks doc! And now I know that you were wrong!

EDIT: I'm surely confusing "1.6" with something else from years ago. I just checked it again, and all it says is there's 0 cM of shared DNA segments found, and the conclusion: "This analysis indicates that your parents are probably not related within recent generations."