Title
A genomewide admixture mapping panel for hispanic/latino populations
Date Issued
01 January 2007
Access level
open access
Resource Type
research article
Author(s)
Mao X.
Bigham A.W.
Mei R.
Gutierrez G.
Weiss K.M.
Brutsaert T.D.
Moore L.G.
Vargas E.
McKeigue P.M.
Shriver M.D.
Parra E.J.
Publisher(s)
Cell Press
Abstract
Admixture mapping (AM) is a promising method for the identification of genetic risk factors for complex traits and diseases showing prevalence differences among populations. Efficient application of this method requires the use of a genomewide panel of ancestry-informative markers (AIMs) to infer the population of origin of chromosomal regions in admixed individuals. Genomewide AM panels with markers showing high frequency differences between West African and European populations are already available for disease-gene discovery in African Americans. However, no such a map is yet available for Hispanic/Latino populations, which are the result of two-way admixture between Native American and European populations or of three-way admixture of Native American, European, and West African populations. Here, we report a genomewide AM panel with 2,120 AIMs showing high frequency differences between Native American and European populations. The average intermarker genetic distance is ̃1.7 cM. The panel was identified by genotyping, with the Affymetrix GeneChip Human Mapping 500K array, a population sample with European ancestry, a Mesoamerican sample comprising Maya and Nahua from Mexico, and a South American sample comprising Aymara/Quechua from Bolivia and Quechua from Peru. The main criteria for marker selection were both high information content for Native American/European ancestry (measured as the standardized variance of the allele frequencies, also known as "f value") and small frequency differences between the Mesoamerican and South American samples. This genomewide AM panel will make it possible to apply AM approaches in many admixed populations throughout the Americas. © 2007 by The American Society of Human Genetics. All rights reserved.
Start page
1171
End page
1178
Volume
80
Issue
6
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Genética humana Biotecnología relacionada con la salud
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-34250882721
PubMed ID
Source
American Journal of Human Genetics
ISSN of the container
00029297
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