Inference of ancestry: Constructing hierarchical reference populations and assigning unknown individuals

Human Genomics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 212-235

  Ekins, Jayne E ^a   Ekins, Jacob B ^a   Layton, Lara ^a   Hutchison, Luke A D ^a   Myres, Natalie M ^a   Woodward, Scott R ^a,b  

^a Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Clustering; Human population structure; Population genetics; Short tandem repeats (STRs)

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOINFORMATICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PLESIOMORPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 32044464997     PISSN: 14797364     EISSN: 14797364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1479-7364-2-4-212     Document Type: Article

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