1. A continuum of admixture in the Western Hemisphere revealed by the African Diaspora genome
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Rasika Ann Mathias, Margaret A. Taub, Christopher R. Gignoux, Wenqing Fu, Shaila Musharoff, Timothy D. O'Connor, Candelaria Vergara, Dara G. Torgerson, Maria Pino-Yanes, Suyash S. Shringarpure, Lili Huang, Nicholas Rafaels, Meher Preethi Boorgula, Henry Richard Johnston, Victor E. Ortega, Albert M. Levin, Wei Song, Raul Torres, Badri Padhukasahasram, Celeste Eng, Delmy-Aracely Mejia-Mejia, Trevor Ferguson, Zhaohui S. Qin, Alan F. Scott, Maria Yazdanbakhsh, James G. Wilson, Javier Marrugo, Leslie A. Lange, Rajesh Kumar, Pedro C. Avila, L. Keoki Williams, Harold Watson, Lorraine B. Ware, Christopher Olopade, Olufunmilayo Olopade, Ricardo Oliveira, Carole Ober, Dan L. Nicolae, Deborah Meyers, Alvaro Mayorga, Jennifer Knight-Madden, Tina Hartert, Nadia N. Hansel, Marilyn G. Foreman, Jean G. Ford, Mezbah U. Faruque, Georgia M. Dunston, Luis Caraballo, Esteban G. Burchard, Eugene Bleecker, Maria Ilma Araujo, Edwin Francisco Herrera-Paz, Kimberly Gietzen, Wendy E. Grus, Michael Bamshad, Carlos D. Bustamante, Eimear E. Kenny, Ryan D. Hernandez, Terri H. Beaty, Ingo Ruczinski, Joshua Akey, CAAPA, and Kathleen C. Barnes
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Science - Abstract
The Consortium on Asthma among African-ancestry Populations in the Americas (CAAPA) aims to better understand population genetics of the African diaspora. Here, it uses deeply sequenced whole-genomes to describe the impact of admixture and potential disease burden of deleterious variants.
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- 2016
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