Robust Estimation of Local Genetic Ancestry in Admixed Populations Using a Nonparametric Bayesian Approach
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Robust estimation of local genetic ancestry in admixed populations using a nonparametric Bayesian approach.
We present a new haplotype-based approach for inferring local genetic ancestry of individuals in an admixed population. Most existing approaches for local ancestry estimation ignore the latent genetic relatedness between ancestral populations and treat them as independent. In this article, we exploit such information by building an inheritance model that describes both the ancestral populations...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genetics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1943-2631
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.140228