Clinical genetic variation across Hispanic populations in the Mexican Biobank.

ABSTRACT: Genetic testing for specific alleles is often recommended based on an individual's ancestry. However, the frequency of pathogenic and pharmacogenomic alleles across different Hispanic groups has not been well characterized, and existing guidelines often fail to recognize the geographic and ancestral diversity within these populations. Here analyzing data from 6,011 individuals from the nationwide Mexican Biobank, we show that Mexican individuals have striking regional differences in biomedically relevant allele frequencies, shaped both by their overall admixture proportions, but also by the local Indigenous ancestral groups contributing to their genome (for example, Nahua in central Mexico, Zapotec in the South or Maya in the Yucatan peninsula). We found ancestry-specific patterns with cli

SUBMITTER: Barberena-Jonas C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12920135 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature