Analyses of a set of 128 ancestry informative single-nucleotide polymorphisms in a global set of 119 population samples.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Using DNA to determine an individual's ancestry from among human populations is generally interesting and useful for many purposes, including admixture mapping, controlling for population structure in disease or trait association studies and forensic ancestry inference. However, to estimate ancestry, including possible admixture within an individual, as well as heterogeneity within a group of individuals, allele frequencies are necessary for what are believed to be the contributing populations. For this purpose, panels of ancestry informative markers (AIMs) have been developed.

Results

We are presenting our work on one such panel, composed of 128 ancestry informative single-nucleotide polymorphisms (AISNPs) already proposed in the literature. Compared to previous

SUBMITTER: Kidd JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3025953 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature