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Unravelling the Hidden Ancestry of American Admixed Populations
Resource ID: 2693
Type: journal article, article
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- UPDATED: 6.29.2025
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- populations, race+ethnicity, research
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DOI:
date:
2015
pages:
7
notes:
. . .
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.
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