Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil .
Departamento de Antropología Biológica, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay .
Genet Mol Biol. 2014 Mar;37(1 Suppl):151-70. doi: 10.1590/s1415-47572014000200003.
A general introduction to the origins and history of Latin American populations is followed by a systematic review of the data from molecular autosomal assessments of the ethnic/continental (European, African, Amerindian) ancestries for 24 Latin American countries or territories. The data surveyed are of varying quality but provide a general picture of the present constitution of these populations. A brief discussion about the applications of these results (admixture mapping) is also provided. Latin American populations can be viewed as natural experiments for the investigation of unique anthropological and epidemiological issues.
首先对拉丁美洲人群的起源和历史进行了概述,然后对 24 个拉丁美洲国家或地区的分子常染色体评估的民族/大陆(欧洲、非洲、美洲印第安人)祖先数据进行了系统回顾。调查的数据质量不一,但总体上反映了这些人群的现有构成情况。还简要讨论了这些结果(混合映射)的应用。拉丁美洲人群可以被视为研究独特的人类学和流行病学问题的天然实验。