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Examining population stratification via individual ancestry estimates versus self-reported race.
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology - 1 Jun 2005
Barnholtz-Sloan Jill S, Chakraborty Ranajit, Sellers Thomas A, Schwartz Ann G
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Population stratification has the potential to affect the results of genetic marker studies. Estimating individual ancestry provides a continuous measure to assess population structure in case-control studies of complex disease, instead of using self-reported racial groups. We estimate individual ancestry using the Federal Bureau of Investigation CODIS Core short tandem repeat set of 13 loci using two different...
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