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Ancestry informative markers in Amerindians from Brazilian Amazon.
American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council - 1 Jan 2000
Luizon Marcelo Rizzatti, Mendes-Junior Celso Teixeira, De Oliveira Silviene Fabiana, Simões Aguinaldo Luiz
Abstract excerpt
Ancestry informative markers (AIMs) are genetic loci with large frequency differences between the major ethnic groups and are very useful in admixture estimation. However, their frequencies are poorly known within South American indigenous populations, making it difficult to use them in admixture studies with Latin American populations, such as the trihybrid Brazilian population. To minimize this problem, the...
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