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The correlation between ancestry and color in two cities of Northeast Brazil with contrasting ethnic compositions.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Jul 2015
Magalhães da Silva Thiago, Sandhya Rani M R, de Oliveira Costa Gustavo Nunes, Figueiredo Maria A, Melo Paulo S, Nascimento João F, Molyneaux Neil D, Barreto Maurício L, Reis Mitermayer G, Teixeira M Glória, Blanton Ronald E
Abstract excerpt
The degree of admixture in Brazil between historically isolated populations is complex and geographically variable. Studies differ as to what the genetic and phenotypic consequences of this mixing have been. In Northeastern Brazil, we enrolled 522 residents of Salvador and 620 of Fortaleza whose distributions of self-declared color were comparable to those in the national census. Using the program Structure and...
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