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Population genetic structure and origins of Native Hawaiians in the multiethnic cohort study.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Kim Sung K, Gignoux Christopher R, Wall Jeffrey D, Lum-Jones Annette, Wang Hansong, Haiman Christopher A, Chen Gary K, Henderson Brian E, Kolonel Laurence N, Le Marchand Loic, Stram Daniel O, Saxena Richa, Cheng Iona
Abstract excerpt
The population genetic structure of Native Hawaiians has yet to be comprehensively studied, and the ancestral origins of Polynesians remain in question. In this study, we utilized high-resolution genome-wide SNP data and mitochondrial genomes of 148 and 160 Native Hawaiians, respectively, to characterize their population structure of the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes, ancestral origins, and population...
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