The abundance of rare variants in human DNA is the consequence of tremendous recent expansion of our population. Careful measurement of neutral variants in a European population points to more recent and more rapid expansion ...

Careful GWAS analysis of a group of mixed-ancestry Latino-American individuals reveals the role of a new “light” variant of the MSFD12 gene which appears to originate in some of the ...

More than 10 million enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas between 1500 and 1900. Recent genetic studies investigate regional African ancestry components in present-day Africa-Americans, and allow comparison ...