African and non-African admixture compon
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Tanda Murray; Terri H. Beaty; Rasika A. Mathias; Nicholas Rafaels; Audrey Virgin
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Article
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2010
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Admixture is a potential source of confounding in genetic association studies, so it becomes important to detect and estimate admixture in a sample of unrelated individuals. Populations of African descent in the US and the Caribbean share similar historical backgrounds but the distribut