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Selecting SNPs to identify ancestry.
Annals of human genetics - 1 Jul 2011
Sampson Joshua N, Kidd Kenneth K, Kidd Judith R, Zhao Hongyu
Abstract excerpt
An individual's genotypes at a group of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) can be used to predict that individual's ethnicity or ancestry. In medical studies, knowledge of a subject's ancestry can minimize possible confounding, and in forensic applications, such knowledge can help direct inve...
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