Estimating African American admixture proportions by use of population-specific alleles.

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Published in Am J Hum Genet on December 01, 1998

Authors

E J Parra1, A Marcini, J Akey, J Martinson, M A Batzer, R Cooper, T Forrester, D B Allison, R Deka, R E Ferrell, M D Shriver

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Human Genetics, Allegheny University of Health Sciences, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

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