Mexican Biobank advances population and medical genomics of diverse ancestries

M Sohail, MJ Palma-Martínez, AY Chong… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Latin America continues to be severely underrepresented in genomics research, and fine-
scale genetic histories and complex trait architectures remain hidden owing to insufficient …

A review of ancestrality and admixture in Latin America and the caribbean focusing on native American and African descendant populations

TC De Oliveira, R Secolin, I Lopes-Cendes - Frontiers in Genetics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Genomics can reveal essential features about the demographic evolution of a population
that may not be apparent from historical elements. In recent years, there has been a …

Genetic diversity in populations across Latin America: implications for population and medical genetic studies

GM Belbin, MA Nieves-Colón, EE Kenny… - Current opinion in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Hispanic/Latino (H/L) populations, although linked by culture and aspects of shared history,
reflect the complexity of history and migration influencing the Americas. The original …

[HTML][HTML] Latin Americans show wide-spread Converso ancestry and imprint of local Native ancestry on physical appearance

JC Chacón-Duque, K Adhikari… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Historical records and genetic analyses indicate that Latin Americans trace their ancestry
mainly to the intermixing (admixture) of Native Americans, Europeans and Sub-Saharan …

The genomic landscape of Mexican Indigenous populations brings insights into the peopling of the Americas

H García-Ortiz, F Barajas-Olmos… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The genetic makeup of Indigenous populations inhabiting Mexico has been strongly
influenced by geography and demographic history. Here, we perform a genome-wide …

Demographic history and genetic structure in pre-Hispanic Central Mexico

V Villa-Islas, A Izarraras-Gomez, M Larena… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Aridoamerica and Mesoamerica are two distinct cultural areas in northern and central
Mexico, respectively, that hosted numerous pre-Hispanic civilizations between 2500 BCE …

[HTML][HTML] The immunogenetic diversity of the HLA system in Mexico correlates with underlying population genetic structure

R Barquera, DI Hernández-Zaragoza… - Human Immunology, 2020 - Elsevier
We studied HLA class I (HLA-A,-B) and class II (HLA-DRB1,-DQB1) allele groups and alleles
by PCR-SSP based ty** in a total of 15,318 mixed ancestry Mexicans from all the states of …

Blood Groups Distribution and Gene Diversity of the ABO and Rh (D) Loci in the Mexican Population

A Canizalez-Román, A Campos-Romero… - BioMed research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objective. To determine the frequency and distribution of ABO and Rh (D) antigens and,
additionally, investigate gene diversity and the structure of Mexican populations. Materials …

Running in Tarahumara (Rarámuri) culture: Persistence hunting, footracing, dancing, work, and the fallacy of the athletic savage

DE Lieberman, M Mahaffey… - Current …, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
The Tarahumara (Rarámuri) are a Native American people from Chihuahua, Mexico, who
have long been famous for running, but there is widespread incredulity about how and why …