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Genetic ancestry of a Moroccan population as inferred from autosomal STRs by Bentayebi, K.; Abada, F.; Ihzmad, H.; Amzazi, S. is a Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology article available to read on EtoBox.

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Detecting population substructure and ancestry is a critical issue for both association studies of health behaviors and forensic genetics. Determining aspects of a population's genetic history as potential sources of substructure can aid in design of future genetic studies. Within this context, fifteen autosomal short tandem repeat (STR), were used to examine population genetic structure and hypotheses of the origin of the modern Moroccan population from individuals belonging to three different ethnical groups from Morocco (Arab, Berber and Sahrawi), by comparing their autosomal STR variation with that of neighboring and non-neighboring populations in North Africa, Europe and Middle East as well as proposed ancestral populations in Morocco (Berber). We report on the results that the gradient of North African ancestry accounts for previous observations of low levels of sharing with Near East and a substantially increased gene flow especially from Morocco and Spain.

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Author

Bentayebi, K.; Abada, F.; Ihzmad, H.; Amzazi, S.

Publisher

Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 2214-5400)

Published

2014

Language

EN

Field

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)