Development of a Panel of Genome-Wide Ancestry Informative Markers to Study Admixture Throughout the Americas

Galanter, Joshua; Carlos Fernández-López, Juan; R. Gignoux, Christopher; S. Barnholtz‐Sloan, Jill; Fernández–Rozadilla, Ceres; Vía, Marc; Hidalgo‐Miranda, Alfredo; Contreras, Alejandra; Uribe Figueroa, Laura; Raska, Paola; Jiménez‐Sánchez, Gerardo; Silva Zolezzi, Irma; Torres, María; Ruiz Ponte, Clara; Ruíz, Yarimar; Salas, Antonio; A. Nguyen, Elizabeth; Eng, Celeste; Borjas, Lisbeth; Zabala, William; Barreto, Guillermo; Rondón González, Fernando; Ibarra, A.; Taboada, Patricia; Porras, Liliana; Moreno, Fabián; W. Bigham, Abigail; Gutiérrez‐Gutiérrez, Gerardo; D. Brutsaert, Tom; Lèon‐Velarde, Fabiola; G. Moore, Lorna; Vargas, Enrique; Cruz, Miguel; Escobedo, Jorge; Rodríguez‐Santana, José; Rodríguez-Cintrón, William; Chapela, Rocío; G. Ford, Jean; D. Bustamante, Carlos; Seminara, Daniela; D. Shriver, Mark; Ziv, Elad; G. Burchard, Esteban; W. Haile, Robert; J. Parra, Esteban; Carracedo, Ãngel

doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002554

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Development of a Panel of Genome-Wide Ancestry Informative Markers to Study Admixture Throughout the Americas

Published in PLoS Genetics • Mar 8, 2012

Authors:

Joshua Galanter

Juan Carlos Fernández-López

Christopher R. Gignoux

Abstract

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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Biology

Ancestry-informative marker

Population stratification

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