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The genetic ancestry of African Americans, Latinos, and European Americans across the United States.
American journal of human genetics - 8 Jan 2015
Bryc Katarzyna, Durand Eric Y, Macpherson J Michael, Reich David, Mountain Joanna L
Abstract excerpt
Over the past 500 years, North America has been the site of ongoing mixing of Native Americans, European settlers, and Africans (brought largely by the trans-Atlantic slave trade), shaping the early history of what became the United States. We studied the genetic ancestry of 5,269 self-described African Americans, 8,663 Latinos, and 148,789 European Americans who are 23andMe customers and show that the legacy of...
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