Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Demographic history and biologically relevant genetic variation of Native Mexicans inferred from whole-genome sequencing

  • Sandra Romero-Hidalgo,
  • Adrián Ochoa-Leyva,
  • Alejandro Garcíarrubio,
  • Victor Acuña-Alonzo,
  • Erika Antúnez-Argüelles,
  • Martha Balcazar-Quintero,
  • Rodrigo Barquera-Lozano,
  • Alessandra Carnevale,
  • Fernanda Cornejo-Granados,
  • Juan Carlos Fernández-López,
  • Rodrigo García-Herrera,
  • Humberto García-Ortíz,
  • Ángeles Granados-Silvestre,
  • Julio Granados,
  • Fernando Guerrero-Romero,
  • Enrique Hernández-Lemus,
  • Paola León-Mimila,
  • Gastón Macín-Pérez,
  • Angélica Martínez-Hernández,
  • Marta Menjivar,
  • Enrique Morett,
  • Lorena Orozco,
  • Guadalupe Ortíz-López,
  • Fernando Pérez-Villatoro,
  • Javier Rivera-Morales,
  • Fernando Riveros-McKay,
  • Marisela Villalobos-Comparán,
  • Hugo Villamil-Ramírez,
  • Teresa Villarreal-Molina,
  • Samuel Canizales-Quinteros,
  • Xavier Soberón

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01194-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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People of Mexico have diverse historical and genetic background. Here, Romero-Hidalgo and colleagues sequence whole genomes of Native Americans of Mexico, and show demographic history and genetic variation shared among subgroups of Native Americans.