Unravelling the hidden ancestry of American admixed populations.
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 25803618.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1038/ncomms7596 and PMC identifier 4374169.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
The movement of people into the Americas has brought different populations into contact, and contemporary American genomes are the product of a range of complex admixture events. Here we apply a haplotype-based ancestry identification approach to a large set of genome-wide SNP data from a variety of American, European and African populations to determine the contributions of different ancestral populations to the Americas. Our results provide a fine-scale characterization of the source populations, identify a series of novel, previously unreported contributions from Africa and Europe and highlight geohistorical structure in the ancestry of American admixed populations.
Medical subject headings
- American Indian or Alaska Native
- Asian People
- Black People
- Emigration and Immigration
- Genome, Human
- White People