Abstract Background Current South American populations trace their origins mainly to three
continental ancestries, ie European, Amerindian and African. Individual variation in relative …

Background Association studies are useful to unravel the genetic basis of common human
diseases. However, the presence of undetected population structure can lead to both false …

Background Using DNA to determine an individual's ancestry from among human
populations is generally interesting and useful for many purposes, including admixture …

Ancestry informative SNPs can be useful to estimate individual and population
biogeographical ancestry. Brazilian population is characterized by a genetic background of …

Most individuals throughout the Americas are admixed descendants of Native American,
European, and African ancestors. Complex historical factors have resulted in varying …

The Brazilian population is considered to be highly admixed. The main contributing
ancestral populations were European and African, with Amerindians contributing to a lesser …

We estimated local ancestry on the autosomes and X chromosome in a large US-based
study of 12,793 Hispanic/Latino individuals using the RFMix method, and we compared …

To investigate the ancestral admixture in the Mestizo population in northeastern Mexico, we
genotyped 74 ancestral informative markers (AIMs) and 15 Y-single-nucleotide …

In this study, a small set of ancestry informative SNPs was selected to differentiate African,
European, East and South Asian samples, which was detected by the next‐generation …

Admixture occurs when individuals from parental populations that have been isolated for
hundreds of generations form a new hybrid population. Currently, interest in measuring …