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The Analysis of Ethnic Mixtures.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2017
Zhu Xiaofeng, Wang Heming
Abstract excerpt
Population of ethnic mixtures can be useful in genetic studies. Admixture mapping, or mapping by admixture linkage disequilibrium (MALD), is specially developed for admixed populations and can supplement traditional genome-wide association analyses in the search for genetic variants underlying complex traits. Admixture mapping tests the association between a trait and locus-specific ancestries. The locus-specific...
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