Ancestry-related assortative mating in Latino populations

Risch, Neil; Choudhry, Shweta; Vía, Marc; Basu, Analabha; Sebro, Ronnie; Eng, Celeste; B. Beckman, Kenneth; Thyne, Shannon; Chapela, Rocío; Rodríguez‐Santana, José; Rodríguez-Cintrón, William; C. Avila, Pedro; Ziv, Elad; G. Burchard, Esteban

doi:10.1186/gb-2009-10-11-r132

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Ancestry-related assortative mating in Latino populations

Published in Genome biology • Nov 20, 2009

Authors:

Neil Risch

Shweta Choudhry

Marc Vía

Abstract

BACKGROUND: While spouse correlations have been documented for numerous traits, no prior studies have assessed assortative mating for genetic ancestry in admixed populations. RESULTS: Using 104 ancestry informative markers, we examined spouse correlations in genetic ancestry for Mexican spouse pairs...

Subject

Assortative mating

Spouse

Demography

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