Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

A continuum of admixture in the Western Hemisphere revealed by the African Diaspora genome

  • Rasika Ann Mathias,
  • Margaret A. Taub,
  • Christopher R. Gignoux,
  • Wenqing Fu,
  • Shaila Musharoff,
  • Timothy D. O'Connor,
  • Candelaria Vergara,
  • Dara G. Torgerson,
  • Maria Pino-Yanes,
  • Suyash S. Shringarpure,
  • Lili Huang,
  • Nicholas Rafaels,
  • Meher Preethi Boorgula,
  • Henry Richard Johnston,
  • Victor E. Ortega,
  • Albert M. Levin,
  • Wei Song,
  • Raul Torres,
  • Badri Padhukasahasram,
  • Celeste Eng,
  • Delmy-Aracely Mejia-Mejia,
  • Trevor Ferguson,
  • Zhaohui S. Qin,
  • Alan F. Scott,
  • Maria Yazdanbakhsh,
  • James G. Wilson,
  • Javier Marrugo,
  • Leslie A. Lange,
  • Rajesh Kumar,
  • Pedro C. Avila,
  • L. Keoki Williams,
  • Harold Watson,
  • Lorraine B. Ware,
  • Christopher Olopade,
  • Olufunmilayo Olopade,
  • Ricardo Oliveira,
  • Carole Ober,
  • Dan L. Nicolae,
  • Deborah Meyers,
  • Alvaro Mayorga,
  • Jennifer Knight-Madden,
  • Tina Hartert,
  • Nadia N. Hansel,
  • Marilyn G. Foreman,
  • Jean G. Ford,
  • Mezbah U. Faruque,
  • Georgia M. Dunston,
  • Luis Caraballo,
  • Esteban G. Burchard,
  • Eugene Bleecker,
  • Maria Ilma Araujo,
  • Edwin Francisco Herrera-Paz,
  • Kimberly Gietzen,
  • Wendy E. Grus,
  • Michael Bamshad,
  • Carlos D. Bustamante,
  • Eimear E. Kenny,
  • Ryan D. Hernandez,
  • Terri H. Beaty,
  • Ingo Ruczinski,
  • Joshua Akey,
  • CAAPA,
  • Kathleen C. Barnes

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12522
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The Consortium on Asthma among African-ancestry Populations in the Americas (CAAPA) aims to better understand population genetics of the African diaspora. Here, it uses deeply sequenced whole-genomes to describe the impact of admixture and potential disease burden of deleterious variants.