id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_lksvj4l7wzgzxew6iznsubfrwq Hua Tang Recent Genetic Selection in the Ancestral Admixture of Puerto Ricans 2007 8 .pdf application/pdf 4910 380 51 Recent studies have used dense markers to examine the human genome in ancestrally homogeneous populations for With use of dense genotype data on human populations, recent studies have identified regions that appear use of dense genotype data, to detect a signature of selection by looking in an admixed population for genomic explored in various studies, which compare admixture estimates at a small number of loci.6–8 Workman et al.6 examined 12 genetic markers in a sample of 1,287 African The Puerto Rican population arose as a result of admixing among Europeans, West Africans, and Native Americans. and of 112,584 SNPs, marker-specific ancestries were estimated, with the program SABER,11 for all autosomes for Averaged over 192 Puerto Ricans, the genomewide mean estimated European ancestry was .67, African ancestry was .18, and Native American ancestry was the vertical height proportional to the marker-specific ancestry estimates of African (red), European (blue), and Native American (green) ./cache/work_lksvj4l7wzgzxew6iznsubfrwq.pdf ./txt/work_lksvj4l7wzgzxew6iznsubfrwq.txt