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Estimating ancestral proportions in a multi-ethnic US sample: implications for studies of admixed populations.
Human genomics - 5 Jul 2012
Levran Orna, Awolesi Olaoluwakitan, Shen Pei-Hong, Adelson Miriam, Kreek Mary Jeanne
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This study was designed to determine the ancestral composition of a multi-ethnic sample collected for studies of drug addictions in New York City and Las Vegas, and to examine the reliability of self-identified ethnicity and three-generation family history data. Ancestry biographical scores for seven clusters corresponding to world major geographical regions were obtained using STRUCTURE, based on genotypes of...
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