• DOI:10.1126/SCIENCE.1078311
Corpus ID: 8127224

Genetic Structure of Human Populations

@article{Rosenberg2002GeneticSO,
  title={Genetic Structure of Human Populations},
  author={N. Rosenberg and J. Pritchard and J. Weber and H. Cann and K. Kidd and L. Zhivotovsky and M. Feldman},
  journal={Science},
  year={2002},
  volume={298},
  pages={2381 - 2385}
}

• N. Rosenberg, J. Pritchard, +4 authors M. Feldman
• Published 2002
• Biology, Medicine
• Science

We studied human population structure using genotypes at 377 autosomal microsatellite loci in 1056 individuals from 52 populations. Within-population differences among individuals account for 93 to 95% of genetic variation; differences among major groups constitute only 3 to 5%. Nevertheless, without using prior information about the origins of individuals, we identified six main genetic clusters, five of which correspond to major geographic regions, and subclusters that often correspond to… Expand