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Modern European and African descendants in the US carry the legacy of early Native American admixture
The genetic legacy of Native Americans can be found within the genomes of European and African descendants throughout the US. Small segments of DNA inherited from Native American ancestors (red) can be found within genomes that show predominantly European (orange) or African (blue) genetic ancestry. See Jordan et al.
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Citation: (2019) PLoS Genetics Issue Image | Vol. 15(9) September 2019. PLoS Genet 15(9): ev15.i09. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pgen.v15.i09
Published: September 27, 2019
Copyright: © 2019 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The genetic legacy of Native Americans can be found within the genomes of European and African descendants throughout the US. Small segments of DNA inherited from Native American ancestors (red) can be found within genomes that show predominantly European (orange) or African (blue) genetic ancestry. See Jordan et al.
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Image Credit: Lavanya Rishishwar