Admixture in latin america

K Adhikari, J Mendoza-Revilla… - Current opinion in …, 2016 - Elsevier
Latin Americans arguably represent the largest recently admixed populations in the world.
This reflects a history of massive settlement by immigrants (mostly Europeans and Africans) …

The genetic diversity of the Americas

K Adhikari, JC Chacón-Duque… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The history of the Americas involved the encounter of millions of Native Americans,
Europeans, and Africans. A variable admixture of these three continental groups has taken …

Dispersals and genetic adaptation of Bantu-speaking populations in Africa and North America

E Patin, M Lopez, R Grollemund, P Verdu, C Harmant… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Bantu languages are spoken by about 310 million Africans, yet the genetic history of Bantu-
speaking populations remains largely unexplored. We generated genomic data for 1318 …

Multi-ancestry meta-analysis and fine-map** in Alzheimer's disease

J Lake, C Warly Solsberg, JJ Kim, J Acosta-Uribe… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of Alzheimer's disease are predominantly carried
out in European ancestry individuals despite the known variation in genetic architecture and …

Genomic insights into the ancestry and demographic history of South America

JR Homburger, A Moreno-Estrada, CR Gignoux… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
South America has a complex demographic history shaped by multiple migration and
admixture events in pre-and post-colonial times. Settled over 14,000 years ago by Native …

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 …

Evolutionary genomic dynamics of Peruvians before, during, and after the Inca Empire

DN Harris, W Song, AC Shetty, KS Levano… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - pnas.org
Native Americans from the Amazon, Andes, and coastal geographic regions of South
America have a rich cultural heritage but are genetically understudied, therefore leading to …

Relaxed selection limits lifespan by increasing mutation load

R Cui, T Medeiros, D Willemsen, LNM Iasi, GE Collier… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
To uncover the selective forces sha** life-history trait evolution across species, we
investigate the genomic basis underlying adaptations to seasonal habitat desiccation in …

Whole-genome sequencing for an enhanced understanding of genetic variation among South Africans

A Choudhury, M Ramsay, S Hazelhurst, S Aron… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract The Southern African Human Genome Programme is a national initiative that
aspires to unlock the unique genetic character of southern African populations for a better …

[HTML][HTML] The arrival of Siberian ancestry connecting the Eastern Baltic to Uralic speakers further East

L Saag, M Laneman, L Varul, M Malve, H Valk… - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
In this study, we compare the genetic ancestry of individuals from two as yet genetically
unstudied cultural traditions in Estonia in the context of available modern and ancient …