Patterns of admixture and population structure in native populations of Northwest North America.

ABSTRACT: The initial contact of European populations with indigenous populations of the Americas produced diverse admixture processes across North, Central, and South America. Recent studies have examined the genetic structure of indigenous populations of Latin America and the Caribbean and their admixed descendants, reporting on the genomic impact of the history of admixture with colonizing populations of European and African ancestry. However, relatively little genomic research has been conducted on admixture in indigenous North American populations. In this study, we analyze genomic data at 475,109 single-nucleotide polymorphisms sampled in indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest in British Columbia and Southeast Alaska, populations with a well-documented history of contact with European and

SUBMITTER: Verdu P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4133047 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature