Discerning the ancestry of European Americans in genetic association studies

European Americans are often treated as a homogeneous group, but in fact form a structured population due to historical immigration of diverse source populations. Discerning the ancestry of European Americans genotyped in association studies is important in order to prevent false-positive or false-n...

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Main Authors: Price, A, Butler, J, Patterson, N, Capelli, C, Pascali, V, Scarnicci, F, Ruiz-Linares, A, Groop, L, Saetta, A, Korkolopoulou, P, Seligsohn, U, Waliszewska, A, Schirmer, C, Ardlie, K, Ramos, A, Nemesh, J, Arbeitman, L, Goldstein, D, Reich, D, Hirschhorn, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2008