https://genestogenomes.org/mapping-granny-ancestry-inference-admixed-individuals/ A blog from the Genetics Society of America Mon, 10 Aug 2015 11:43:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://genestogenomes.org/mapping-granny-ancestry-inference-admixed-individuals/#comment-39 Sun, 11 Jan 2015 22:27:10 +0000 https://genestogenomes.org/?p=760#comment-39 […] Mapping granny: ancestry inference for admixed individuals – “In the December issue of G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics, Yang et al. describe a method for ancestry inference of admixed individuals that uses a geographic approach to explicitly model some of the messy realities of populations. Testing the new method on data from the Population Reference Sample project, the authors were able to localize the grandparents of admixed Europeans to within around 500 kilometres of their reported ancestry, while simultaneously identifying which segments of each person’s genome were inherited from each ancestor.” […]

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