Forensic DNA profiling currently allows the identification of persons already known to
investigating authorities. Recent advances have produced new types of genetic markers …

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 …

Over the past 500 years, North America has been the site of ongoing mixing of Native
Americans, European settlers, and Africans (brought largely by the trans-Atlantic slave …

Human Evolutionary Genetics is a groundbreaking text which for the first time brings
together molecular genetics and genomics to the study of the origins and movements of …

Races may exist in humans in a cultural sense, but biological concepts of race are needed
to access their reality in a non-species-specific manner and to see if cultural categories …

Ancestry-informative markers (AIMs) show high allele frequency divergence between
different ancestral or geographically distant populations. These genetic markers are …

Pigmentation of skin, eye, and hair reflects some of the most evident common phenotypes in
humans. Several candidate genes for human pigmentation are identified. The SNP …

Abstract Letter to the Editor-Moving beyond a lost cause: Forensic anthropology and
ancestry estimates in the United States. Bethard and DiGangi opened a dialogue on the …

A revision of an established 34 SNP forensic ancestry test has been made by swap** the
under-performing rs727811 component SNP with the highly informative rs3827760 that …

Many ancestry informative SNP (AISNP) panels have been published. Ancestry resolution in
them varies from three to eight continental clusters of populations depending on the panel …