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A minimum set of ancestry informative markers for determining admixture proportions in a mixed American population: the Brazilian set.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 May 2016
Santos Hadassa C, Horimoto Andréa V R, Tarazona-Santos Eduardo, Rodrigues-Soares Fernanda, Barreto Mauricio L, Horta Bernardo L, Lima-Costa Maria F, Gouveia Mateus H, Machado Moara, Silva Thiago M, Sanches José M, Esteban Nubia, Magalhaes Wagner C S, Rodrigues Maíra R, Kehdy Fernanda S G, Pereira Alexandre C
Abstract excerpt
The Brazilian population is considered to be highly admixed. The main contributing ancestral populations were European and African, with Amerindians contributing to a lesser extent. The aims of this study were to provide a resource for determining and quantifying individual continental ancestry using the smallest number of SNPs possible, thus allowing for a cost- and time-efficient strategy for genomic ancestry...
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