Analyses of a set of 128 ancestry informative single-nucleotide polymorphisms in a global set of 119 population samples // Investigative Genetics 2011, 2:1, Publication date: 5 January 2011
Kidd et al.
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.
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