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Increasing the reference populations for the 55 AISNP panel: the need and benefits.
International journal of legal medicine - 1 Jul 2017
Pakstis Andrew J, Kang Longli, Liu Lijun, Zhang Zhiying, Jin Tianbo, Grigorenko Elena L, Wendt Frank R, Budowle Bruce, Hadi Sibte, Al Qahtani Mariam Salam, Morling Niels, Mogensen Helle Smidt, Themudo Goncalo E, Soundararajan Usha, Rajeevan Haseena, Kidd Judith R, Kidd Kenneth K
Abstract excerpt
Ancestry inference for an individual can only be as good as the reference populations with allele frequency data on the SNPs being used. If the most relevant ancestral population(s) does not have data available for the SNPs studied, then analyses based on DNA evidence may indicate a quite distantly related population, albeit one among the more closely related of the existing reference populations. We have added...
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