Phenotypic variance explained by local ancestry in admixed African Americans
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Phenotypic variance explained by local ancestry in admixed African Americans
We surveyed 26 quantitative traits and disease outcomes to understand the proportion of phenotypic variance explained by local ancestry in admixed African Americans. After inferring local ancestry as the number of African-ancestry chromosomes at hundreds of thousands of genotyped loci across all autosomes, we used a linear mixed effects model to estimate the variance explained by local ancestry...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Genetics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1664-8021
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00324