Estimating Asian Contribution to the Brazilian Population: A New Application of a Validated Set of 61 Ancestry Informative Markers

Estimating Asian Contribution to the Brazilian Population: A New Application of a Validated Set of 61 Ancestry Informative Markers

Estimates of different ancestral proportions in admixed populations are very important in population genetics studies, especially for the detection of population substructure effects in studies of case-control associations. Brazil is one of the most heterogeneous countries in the world, both from a...

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Main Authors: Roberta B. Andrade, Marcos A. T. Amador, Giovanna C. Cavalcante, Luciana P. C. Leitão, Marianne R. Fernandes, Antônio A. C. Modesto, Fabiano C. Moreira, André S. Khayat, Paulo P. Assumpção, Ândrea Ribeiro-dos-Santos, Sidney Santos, Ney P. C. Santos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2018-11-01
Series:G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics
Subjects:
Ancestry-informative markers
Insertion-deletion polymorphisms
Admixture
Population substructure
Asian
Online Access:http://g3journal.org/lookup/doi/10.1534/g3.118.200650

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