The Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL) is one of the leading laboratories
in the world for the processing of degraded skeletal remains. Extended efforts have been …

Latin Americans arguably represent the largest recently admixed populations in the world.
This reflects a history of massive settlement by immigrants (mostly Europeans and Africans) …

Over the past 500 years, North America has been the site of ongoing mixing of Native
Americans, European settlers, and Africans (brought largely by the trans-Atlantic slave …

Hispanic/Latino populations possess a complex genetic structure that reflects recent
admixture among and potentially ancient substructure within Native American, European …

We examined genetic diversity and population structure in the American landmass using
678 autosomal microsatellite markers genotyped in 422 individuals representing 24 Native …

The large and diverse population of Latin America is potentially a powerful resource for
elucidating the genetic basis of complex traits through admixture mapping. However, no …

Understanding population health disparities is an essential component of equitable
precision health efforts. Epidemiology research often relies on definitions of race and …

Latinos are the largest minority population in the United States. Although usually classified
as a single ethnic group by researchers, Latinos are heterogeneous from cultural …

Tourette's syndrome (TS) is a developmental disorder that has one of the highest familial
recurrence rates among neuropsychiatric diseases with complex inheritance. However, the …

Although it is well established that Hispanics generally have a mixed Native American,
African, and European ancestry, the dynamics of admixture at the foundation of Hispanic …