• DOI:10.1007/s00439-011-1072-z
Corpus ID: 6635294

The impact of Converso Jews on the genomes of modern Latin Americans

@article{Vlez2011TheIO,
  title={The impact of Converso Jews on the genomes of modern Latin Americans},
  author={C. V{\'e}lez and P. F. Palamara and J. Guevara-Aguirre and L. Hao and T. Karafet and M. Guevara-Aguirre and A. Pearlman and C. Oddoux and M. Hammer and E. Burns and I. Pe'er and G. Atzmon and H. Ostrer},
  journal={Human Genetics},
  year={2011},
  volume={131},
  pages={251-263}
}

C. Vélez, P. F. Palamara, +10 authors H. Ostrer

Published 2011

Biology, Medicine, Geography

Human Genetics

Modern day Latin America resulted from the encounter of Europeans with the indigenous peoples of the Americas in 1492, followed by waves of migration from Europe and Africa. [...] Key Method Here, we analyzed DNA collected from two well-established communities in Colorado (33 unrelated individuals) and Ecuador (20 unrelated individuals) with a measurable prevalence of the BRCA1 c.185delAG and the GHR c.E180 mutations, respectively, using Affymetrix Genome-wide Human SNP 6.0 arrays to identify their ancestry…Expand Abstract

View on Springer

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Save to Library

Create Alert

Cite

Launch Research Feed