Meanings of informative markers in English

To assess population substructure, the authors included 18 ancestry informative markers.

Genetic ancestry was estimated by using a set of validated ancestry informative markers.

Thirty-eight ancestry- informative markers were genotyped in this sample to infer the ancestry proportions.

Ancestry informative markers were used to control for population stratification.

In our sample of 37 meioses, nine informative markers did not recombine with the disease.

Adjustment for population substructure was performed in all analyses, using ancestry- informative markers and principal components analysis.

There was no evidence for linkage of CMT to seven other informative markers in these families.

The test examines for the presence of one hundred and seventy-five SNPs called AIMs, or ancestry informative markers.

Percent European ancestry in African Americans was estimated with 1747 ancestry informative markers from the Illumina custom ITMAT-Broad-CARe array.

There was no significant difference in ancestry among cases and controls using a dihybrid model based on 29 ancestry- informative markers.

We used new highly informative markers at the above loci to analyze Italian FA families for linkage and linkage disequilibrium.

Population structure was evaluated using the structured association method using data from 161 ancestry- informative markers and did not affect our findings.

These polymorphisms make the COL6A1 and COL6A2 genes among the most informative markers on human chromosome 21.

Blood or saliva samples were collected by prospective recruitment or retrieved from biobanks for genotyping of MC1R variants and ancestry informative markers.

We have extended these studies by analyzing an additional 14 informative markers in the family as well as including several newly investigated family members.

A second analysis using 3192 ancestry informative markers from a genome-wide Affymetrix 6.0 array in ARIC African Americans yielded similar results.