Spatial Localization of Recent Ancestors for Admixed Individuals

Ancestry analysis from genetic data plays a critical role in studies of human disease and evolution. Recent work has introduced explicit models for the geographic distribution of genetic variation and has shown that such explicit models yield superior accuracy in ancestry inference over nonmodel-bas...

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Main Authors: Yang, Wen-Yun, Platt, Alexander, Chiang, Charleston Wen-Kai, Eskin, Eleazar, Novembre, John, Pasaniuc, Bogdan
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Genetics Society of America 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267945/