Human Population Admixture in Asia.

Author: Shuhua XU ¹
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1. Max Planck Independent Research Group on Population Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Max Planck Society (CAS-MPG) Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 2000
Publication Type:Review
Keywords: admixture mapping; genetic admixture; local adaptation; population structure
MeSH: Africa; Asia; Colon; Europe; Humans; Metagenomics
From:Genomics & Informatics 2012;10(3):133-144
CountryRepublic of Korea
Language:English
Abstract: Genetic admixture in human, the result of inter-marriage among people from different well-differentiated populations, has been extensively studied in the New World, where European colonization brought contact between peoples of Europe, Africa, and Asia and the Amerindian populations. In Asia, genetic admixing has been also prevalent among previously separated human populations. However, studies on admixed populations in Asia have been largely underrepresented in similar efforts in the New World. Here, I will provide an overview of population genomic studies that have been published to date on human admixture in Asia, focusing on population structure and population history.