The peruvian genome project: expanding the global pool of genome diversity from South America.

ABSTRACT: The process of inhabiting the Americas by ancestral native American populations involved many individuals settling in the Peruvian Andes and Amazonian regions. Due to Latin American countries representing less than 1% of the human genome data available in public reference databases, the evolution and migration processes involved in adapting have not yet been fully explained. The Peruvian Genome Project is an initiative, started in 2011, to address the genomic data underrepresentation from native South American populations. This project has collected 1,149 samples from 17 traditional native and 13 mestizo (mixed of native, African, and European ancestry) communities. Currently, 150 whole genomes and 873 array-genotyped individuals have been analyzed including coastal, Andes, and Amazonian r

SUBMITTER: Guio H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12325035 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature