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Examination of ancestry and ethnic affiliation using highly informative diallelic DNA markers: application to diverse and admixed populations and implications for clinical epidemiology and forensic medicine.
Human genetics - 1 Dec 2005
Yang Nan, Li Hongzhe, Criswell Lindsey A, Gregersen Peter K, Alarcon-Riquelme Marta E, Kittles Rick, Shigeta Russell, Silva Gabriel, Patel Pragna I, Belmont John W, Seldin Michael F
Abstract excerpt
We and others have identified several hundred ancestry informative markers (AIMs) with large allele frequency differences between different major ancestral groups. For this study, a panel of 199 widely distributed AIMs was used to examine a diverse set of 796 DNA samples including self-identified European Americans, West Africans, East Asians, Amerindians, African Americans, Mexicans, Mexican Americans, Puerto...
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