Afro-Derived Amazonian Populations: Inferring Continental Ancestry and Population Substructure
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Afro-derived Amazonian populations: inferring continental ancestry and population substructure.
A panel of Ancestry Informative Markers (AIMs) was used to identify population substructure and estimate individual and overall interethnic admixture in 294 individuals from seven African-derived communities of the Brazilian Amazon. A panel of 48 biallelic markers, representing the insertion (IN) or the deletion (DEL) of small DNA fragments, was employed for this purpose. Overall interethnic ad...
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عنوان ژورنال: Human Biology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0018-7143,1534-6617
DOI: 10.3378/027.083.0504