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A panel of ancestry informative markers for estimating individual biogeographical ancestry and admixture from four continents: utility and applications.
Human mutation - 1 May 2008
Halder Indrani, Shriver Mark, Thomas Matt, Fernandez Jose R, Frudakis Tony
Abstract excerpt
Autosomal ancestry informative markers (AIMs) are useful for inferring individual biogeographical ancestry (I-BGA) and admixture. Ancestry estimates obtained from Y and mtDNA are useful for reconstructing population expansions and migrations in our recent past but individual genomic admixture estimates are useful to test for association of admixture with phenotypes, as covariate in association studies to control...
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