Article
Turkish population structure and genetic ancestry reveal relatedness among Eurasian populations.
Annals of human genetics - 1 Mar 2012
Hodoğlugil Uğur, Mahley Robert W
Abstract excerpt
Turkey has experienced major population movements. Population structure and genetic relatedness of samples from three regions of Turkey, using over 500,000 SNP genotypes, were compared together with Human Genome Diversity Panel (HGDP) data. To obtain a more representative sampling from Central Asia, Kyrgyz samples (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan) were genotyped and analysed. Principal component (PC) analysis reveals a...
Topics
- Asian People
- Emigration and Immigration
- Genetics, Population
- Humans
- Phylogeny
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Population Groups
- Turkey
- White People
