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Pitfalls and challenges with population assignments of individuals from admixed populations: Applying Genogeographer on Brazilian individuals.
Forensic science international. Genetics - 1 Nov 2023
Köksal Zehra, Meyer Olivia Luxford, Andersen Jeppe Dyrberg, Gusmão Leonor, Mogensen Helle Smidt, Pereira Vania, Børsting Claus
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The assignment of individuals to a population can be of importance for the identification of mass disaster victims or criminal offenders in the field of forensic genetics. This assignment is based on biostatistical methods that process data of ancestry informative markers (AIMs), which are selected based on large allele frequency differences between the populations of interest. However, population assignments of...
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