Indigenous Ancestry and Admixture in the Uruguayan Population

Indigenous Ancestry and Admixture in the Uruguayan Population

The Amerindian group known as the Charrúas inhabited Uruguay at the timing of European colonial contact. Even though they were extinguished as an ethnic group as a result of a genocide, Charrúan heritage is part of the Uruguayan identity both culturally and genetically. While mitochondrial DNA studi...

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Main Authors: Lucía Spangenberg, María Inés Fariello, Darío Arce, Gabriel Illanes, Gonzalo Greif, Jong-Yeon Shin, Seong-Keun Yoo, Jeong-Sun Seo, Carlos Robello, Changhoon Kim, John Novembre, Mónica Sans, Hugo Naya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
Subjects:
population genomics
human genomics
indigenous ancestry
admixed population
bioinformatics
South America
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2021.733195/full

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