Estimating Local Ancestry in Admixed Populations

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Year: 2008
Type: article
Volume: 82
Issue: 2
Pages: 290-303
Citations: 353
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                                    Sriram Sankararaman, 
                                
                                    Srinath Sridhar, 
                                
                                    Gad Kimmel
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2008). 
                            Estimating Local Ancestry in Admixed Populations. 
                            The American Journal of Human Genetics
                            , 82
                            (2)
                            , 290-303.
                            https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2007.09.022
                        

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DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2007.09.022