Inferring geographic coordinates of origin for Europeans using small panels of ancestry informative markers.

Recent large-scale studies of European populations have demonstrated the existence of population genetic structure within Europe and the potential to accurately infer individual ancestry when information from hundreds of thousands of genetic markers is used. In fact, when genomewide genetic variatio...

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Main Authors: Petros Drineas, Jamey Lewis, Peristera Paschou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2923600?pdf=render