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The origins of the Yakuts
Posted by Razib Khan on January 26, 2010 One of the more substantive consequences of the powerful new genomic techniques has been in the area of ancient DNA extraction and analysis. The Neandertal genome story is arguably the sexiest, but closer to the present day there’ve been plenty of results which have changed the way we look at the past. The input of…
West Eurasian population substructure + the Baloch
Posted by Razib Khan on August 29, 2009 Dienekes points me to a new paper, European Population Genetic Substructure: Further Definition of Ancestry Informative Markers for Distinguishing Among Diverse European Ethnic Groups. You’ve seen this song & dance before: Population substructure in Japan Population substructure of Mexican Mestizos European population substructure Genetic Map of East Asia The genetics of Fenno-Scandinavia Finns as European…
93 ancestrally informative markers to categorize them all
Posted by Razib Khan on July 30, 2009 An ancestry informative marker set for determining continental origin: validation and extension using human genome diversity panels: Results In this study, genotypes from Human Genome Diversity Panel populations were used to further evaluate a 93 SNP AIM panel, a subset of the 128 AIMS set, for distinguishing continental origins. Using both model-based and relatively model-independent…
More genetic structure of human populations
Posted by Razib Khan on May 16, 2009 Genome-wide Insights into the Patterns and Determinants of Fine-Scale Population Structure in Humans: Studying genomic patterns of human population structure provides important insights into human evolutionary history and the relationship among populations, and it has significant practical implications for disease-gene mapping. Here we describe a principal component (PC)-based approach to studying intracontinental population structure in…
Genetic distance between populations
Posted by Razib Khan on May 5, 2009 In the comments below on the post on human population structure there was some request for a bigger global perspective. Below the fold I’ve placed a table with FST values which compare each population to the other. This an older population genetic statistic derived from the work of Sewall Wright, but you are almost certainly…