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Development of two multiplex mini-sequencing panels of ancestry informative SNPs for studies in Latin Americans: an application to populations of the State of Minas Gerais (Brazil).
Genetics and molecular research : GMR - 19 Oct 2010
Silva M C F, Zuccherato L W, Soares-Souza G B, Vieira Z M, Cabrera L, Herrera P, Balqui J, Romero C, Jahuira H, Gilman R H, Martins M L, Tarazona-Santos E
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Admixture occurs when individuals from parental populations that have been isolated for hundreds of generations form a new hybrid population. Currently, interest in measuring biogeographic ancestry has spread from anthropology to forensic sciences, direct-to-consumers personal genomics, and civil rights issues of minorities, and it is critical for genetic epidemiology studies of admixed populations. Markers with...
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