Development of a panel of genome-wide ancestry informative markers to study admixture throughout the Americas.

Most individuals throughout the Americas are admixed descendants of Native American, European, and African ancestors. Complex historical factors have resulted in varying proportions of ancestral contributions between individuals within and among ethnic groups. We developed a panel of 446 ancestry in...

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Main Authors: Joshua Mark Galanter, Juan Carlos Fernandez-Lopez, Christopher R Gignoux, Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, Ceres Fernandez-Rozadilla, Marc Via, Alfredo Hidalgo-Miranda, Alejandra V Contreras, Laura Uribe Figueroa, Paola Raska, Gerardo Jimenez-Sanchez, Irma Silva Zolezzi, Maria Torres, Clara Ruiz Ponte, Yarimar Ruiz, Antonio Salas, Elizabeth Nguyen, Celeste Eng, Lisbeth Borjas, William Zabala, Guillermo Barreto, Fernando Rondón González, Adriana Ibarra, Patricia Taboada, Liliana Porras, Fabián Moreno, Abigail Bigham, Gerardo Gutierrez, Tom Brutsaert, Fabiola León-Velarde, Lorna G Moore, Enrique Vargas, Miguel Cruz, Jorge Escobedo, José Rodriguez-Santana, William Rodriguez-Cintrón, Rocio Chapela, Jean G Ford, Carlos Bustamante, Daniela Seminara, Mark Shriver, Elad Ziv, Esteban Gonzalez Burchard, Robert Haile, Esteban Parra, Angel Carracedo, LACE Consortium
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3297575?pdf=render