Admixture in Latin America

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 41, Issue , 2016, Pages 106-114

  Adhikari, Kaustubh ^a   Mendoza Revilla, Javier ^a   Chacón Duque, Juan Camilo ^a   Fuentes Guajardo, Macarena ^a   Ruiz Linares, Andrés ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY GROUP; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EVOLUTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HISTORY; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HISTORY; HUMAN; MATING; MIGRATION; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 84988849406     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2016.09.003     Document Type: Review

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