Dynamics of genetic admixture in Brazilian populations
Wednesday, July 8, 2015 - 08:30
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org)—Human genomic diversity studies provide a window to population movements across regions and societies throughout history. Generally, South America has been underrepresented in such studies, but recognizing that Brazil provides a classical model of population admixture, an international group of researchers recently conducted a population-based, genome-wide analysis of three Brazilian populations.