Genetic analysis of ancestry, admixture and selection in Bolivian and Totonac populations of the New World.

doi:10.1186/1471-2156-13-39

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Genetic analysis of ancestry, admixture and selection in Bolivian and Totonac populations of the New World.

BMC genetics - 20 May 2012

Watkins W Scott, Xing Jinchuan, Huff Chad, Witherspoon David J, Zhang Yuhua, Perego Ugo A, Woodward Scott R, Jorde Lynn B

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BACKGROUND: Populations of the Americas were founded by early migrants from Asia, and some have experienced recent genetic admixture. To better characterize the native and non-native ancestry components in populations from the Americas, we analyzed 815,377 autosomal SNPs, mitochondrial hypervariable segments I and II, and 36 Y-chromosome STRs from 24 Mesoamerican Totonacs and 23 South American Bolivians. RESULTS...

Topics

American Indian or Alaska Native
Bolivia
DNA, Mitochondrial
Emigration and Immigration
Genetics, Population
Humans
Mexico
Phylogeography
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Selection, Genetic

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PMID: 22606979
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-13-39
PMCID: PMC3432609

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