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Validation of a small set of ancestral informative markers for control of population admixture in African Americans.
American journal of epidemiology - 1 Mar 2011
Ruiz-Narváez Edward A, Rosenberg Lynn, Wise Lauren A, Reich David, Palmer Julie R
Abstract excerpt
Confounding due to population stratification is a potential source of concern in population-based genetic association studies, particularly in recently admixed populations such as African Americans. Several methods have been developed to control for population stratification in the context of genome-wide association studies. Because these approaches require thousands of genotypes from genetic markers, they are...
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