title: Cherokee admixture and its estimation by the gene identity method: a critique.
abstract: A previous application to a Cherokee hybrid population of two methods for measuring admixture proportions by use of gene identity probabilities was examined. The results suggest that neither procedure has been correctly applied, and that underlying statistical difficulties limit their reliability.
mesh_terms: D044466:Asian People; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005796:Genes; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006801:Humans; D006824:Hybridization, Genetic; D007198:Indians, North American; D008433:Mathematics; D008722:Methods; D013223:Statistics as Topic