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SUBMITTER: Mathias RA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5062574 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mathias Rasika Ann RA Taub Margaret A MA Gignoux Christopher R CR Fu Wenqing W Musharoff Shaila S O'Connor Timothy D TD Vergara Candelaria C Torgerson Dara G DG Pino-Yanes Maria M Shringarpure Suyash S SS Huang Lili L Rafaels Nicholas N Boorgula Meher Preethi MP Johnston Henry Richard HR Ortega Victor E VE Levin Albert M AM Song Wei W Torres Raul R Padhukasahasram Badri B Eng Celeste C Mejia-Mejia Delmy-Aracely DA Ferguson Trevor T Qin Zhaohui S ZS Scott Alan F AF Yazdanbakhsh Maria M Wilson James G JG Marrugo Javier J Lange Leslie A LA Kumar Rajesh R Avila Pedro C PC Williams L Keoki LK Watson Harold H Ware Lorraine B LB Olopade Christopher C Olopade Olufunmilayo O Oliveira Ricardo R Ober Carole C Nicolae Dan L DL Meyers Deborah D Mayorga Alvaro A Knight-Madden Jennifer J Hartert Tina T Hansel Nadia N NN Foreman Marilyn G MG Ford Jean G JG Faruque Mezbah U MU Dunston Georgia M GM Caraballo Luis L Burchard Esteban G EG Bleecker Eugene E Araujo Maria Ilma MI Herrera-Paz Edwin Francisco EF Gietzen Kimberly K Grus Wendy E WE Bamshad Michael M Bustamante Carlos D CD Kenny Eimear E EE Hernandez Ryan D RD Beaty Terri H TH Ruczinski Ingo I Akey Joshua J Barnes Kathleen C KC
Nature communications 20161011
The African Diaspora in the Western Hemisphere represents one of the largest forced migrations in history and had a profound impact on genetic diversity in modern populations. To date, the fine-scale population structure of descendants of the African Diaspora remains largely uncharacterized. Here we present genetic variation from deeply sequenced genomes of 642 individuals from North and South American, Caribbean and West African populations, substantially increasing the lexicon of human genomic ...[more]