Population stratification (PS) is a primary consideration in studies of genetic determinants of
human traits. Failure to control for PS may lead to confounding, causing a study to fail for …

Genomics can reveal essential features about the demographic evolution of a population
that may not be apparent from historical elements. In recent years, there has been a …

Over the past 500 years, North America has been the site of ongoing mixing of Native
Americans, European settlers, and Africans (brought largely by the trans-Atlantic slave …

Humans settled the Caribbean about 6,000 years ago, and ceramic use and intensified
agriculture mark a shift from the Archaic to the Ceramic Age at around 2,500 years ago …

Hispanic/Latino populations possess a complex genetic structure that reflects recent
admixture among and potentially ancient substructure within Native American, European …

It is now widely agreed that the Native American founders originated from a Beringian
source population∼ 15–18 thousand years ago (kya) and rapidly populated all of the New …

The Caribbean was one of the last parts of the Americas to be settled by humans, but how
and when the islands were first occupied remains a matter of debate. Ancient DNA can help …

We carried out an admixture analysis of a sample comprising 1,019 individuals from all the
provinces of Cuba. We used a panel of 128 autosomal Ancestry Informative Markers (AIMs) …

In the nonrecombining region of the Y-chromosome, there are single-nucleotide
polymorphisms (Y-SNPs) that establish haplogroups with particular geographical origins …

The history of the Americas involved the encounter of millions of Native Americans,
Europeans, and Africans. A variable admixture of these three continental groups has taken …