Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Latin Americans show wide-spread Converso ancestry and imprint of local Native ancestry on physical appearance

  • Juan-Camilo Chacón-Duque,
  • Kaustubh Adhikari,
  • Macarena Fuentes-Guajardo,
  • Javier Mendoza-Revilla,
  • Victor Acuña-Alonzo,
  • Rodrigo Barquera,
  • Mirsha Quinto-Sánchez,
  • Jorge Gómez-Valdés,
  • Paola Everardo Martínez,
  • Hugo Villamil-Ramírez,
  • Tábita Hünemeier,
  • Virginia Ramallo,
  • Caio C. Silva de Cerqueira,
  • Malena Hurtado,
  • Valeria Villegas,
  • Vanessa Granja,
  • Mercedes Villena,
  • René Vásquez,
  • Elena Llop,
  • José R. Sandoval,
  • Alberto A. Salazar-Granara,
  • Maria-Laura Parolin,
  • Karla Sandoval,
  • Rosenda I. Peñaloza-Espinosa,
  • Hector Rangel-Villalobos,
  • Cheryl A. Winkler,
  • William Klitz,
  • Claudio Bravi,
  • Julio Molina,
  • Daniel Corach,
  • Ramiro Barrantes,
  • Verónica Gomes,
  • Carlos Resende,
  • Leonor Gusmão,
  • Antonio Amorim,
  • Yali Xue,
  • Jean-Michel Dugoujon,
  • Pedro Moral,
  • Rolando González-José,
  • Lavinia Schuler-Faccini,
  • Francisco M. Salzano,
  • Maria-Cátira Bortolini,
  • Samuel Canizales-Quinteros,
  • Giovanni Poletti,
  • Carla Gallo,
  • Gabriel Bedoya,
  • Francisco Rothhammer,
  • David Balding,
  • Garrett Hellenthal,
  • Andrés Ruiz-Linares

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07748-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Latin Americans trace their ancestry to the admixture of Native Americans, Europeans and Sub-Saharan Africans. Here, the authors develop a novel haplotype-based approach and analyse over 6,500 Latin Americans to infer the geographically-detailed genetic structure of this population.