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Studies

Latin Americans show wide-spread Converso ancestry and imprint of local Native ancestry on physical appearance - Chacón-Duque et al. 2018 🇧🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴🇲🇽🇵🇪
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146...

Admixture in Latin America: Geographic Structure, Phenotypic Diversity and Self-Perception of Ancestry Based on 7,342 Individuals - Ruiz-Linares et al. 2014 🇧🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴🇲🇽🇵🇪
Link: https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetic...

A systematic scoping review of the genetic ancestry of the Brazilian population - Souza et al. 2019 🇧🇷
Link: https://www.scielo.br/j/gmb/a/fk6kLTx...

Pharmacogenetics in the Brazilian Population - Suarez-Kurtz et al. 2010 🇧🇷
Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Genetic ancestry, admixture and health determinants in Latin America - Norris et al. 2018 🇨🇴🇲🇽🇵🇪🇵🇷
Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Genomic Insights into the Ancestry and Demographic History of South America - Hamburger et al. 2015 🇦🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴🇪🇨🇵🇪
Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Outlining the Ancestry Landscape of Colombian Admixed Populations - Ossa et al. 2016 🇨🇴
Link: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...

Unravelling the hidden ancestry of American admixed populations - Montinaro et al. 2015 🌎 🇩🇴
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomm...

Reconstructing the Population Genetic History of the Caribbean - Moreno-Estrada et al. 2013 🌎 🇩🇴
Link: https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetic...

Forensic parameters and admixture in Mestizos from five geographic regions of Mexico based on 20 autosomal STRs (Powerplex 21 system) - Aguilar-Velázquez et al. 2018 🇲🇽
Link: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

The three-hybrid genetic composition of an Ecuadorian population using AIMs-InDels compared with autosomes, mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome data - Zambrano et al. 2019 🇪🇨
Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Higher native Peruvian genetic ancestry proportion is associated with tuberculosis progression risk - Asgari et al. 2022 🇵🇪
Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Admixture in Argentina - Kirkegaard et al. 2017 🇦🇷
Link: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Exploring Cuba’s population structure and demographic history using genome-wide data - Fortes-Lima et al. 2018 🇨🇺
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...

Cuba: Exploring the History of Admixture and the Genetic Basis of Pigmentation Using Autosomal and Uniparental Markers - Marcheco-Teruel et al. 2014 🇨🇺
Link: https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetic...

Breast cancer risk and genetic ancestry: a case–control study in Uruguay - Bonilla et al. 2015 🇺🇾
Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Development of a Panel of Genome-Wide Ancestry Informative Markers to Study Admixture Throughout the Americas - Galanter et al. 2012 🌎 🇵🇷
Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Admixture in the Americas: Regional and National Differences - Kierkegaard et al. 2016 🌎 🇻🇪
Link: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

POS-424 Genetic Admixture of U.S. Hispanics from Central America - Horimoto et al. 2021 🇨🇷🇸🇻🇬🇹🇭🇳🇳🇮🇵🇦
Link: https://www.kireports.org/article/S24...

The Genetic Legacy of the Pre-Colonial Period in Contemporary Bolivians - Taboada-Echalar et al. 2013 🇧🇴
Link: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...

Subtypes of Native American ancestry and leading causes of death: Mapuche ancestry-specific associations with gallbladder cancer risk in Chile - Bermejo et al. 2017 🇨🇱
Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Gene admixture in the Costa Rican population - Morera et al. 2003 🇨🇷
Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12556...

Genetic Ancestry of the Panamanian Population: Polymorphic Structure, Chibchan Amerindian Genes; and Biological Perspectives on Diseases - Castro Pérez et al. 2016 🇵🇦
Link: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

The Ancestry of Eastern Paraguay: A Typical South American Profile with a Unique Pattern of Admixture - Simão et al. 2021 🇵🇾
Link: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8625094/