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Estimating Asian Contribution to the Brazilian Population: A New Application of a Validated Set of 61 Ancestry Informative Markers.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 6 Nov 2018
Andrade Roberta B, Amador Marcos A T, Cavalcante Giovanna C, Leitão Luciana P C, Fernandes Marianne R, Modesto Antônio A C, Moreira Fabiano C, Khayat André S, Assumpção Paulo P, Ribeiro-Dos-Santos Ândrea, Santos Sidney, Santos Ney P C
Abstract excerpt
Estimates of different ancestral proportions in admixed populations are very important in population genetics studies, especially for the detection of population substructure effects in studies of case-control associations. Brazil is one of the most heterogeneous countries in the world, both from a socio-cultural and a genetic point of view. In this work, we investigated a previously developed set of 61 ancestry...
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