Native American Population Genetics-sc-2010-07-07
Native American Population Genetics
The project will resequence genomic DNA samples from ~100 Native American individuals using the Illumina platform. One individual from each population will be sequenced at high coverage and the rest will be sequenced at lower coverage. All the samples will also be genotyped by the Illumina 600K plus or similar array.. This data is part of a pre-publication release. For information on the proper use of pre-publication data shared by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (including details of any publication moratoria), please see http://www.sanger.ac.uk/datasharing/
The Americas were the last continents to be colonized by humans, and many questions about the sources, number and timing of the initial migrations remain unanswered, as do questions about later events in prehistory. This project will generate genotype and sequence information across the genomes of Native American population samples to investigate the peopling of the Americas and subsequent demographic and selective events within the continent from a genetic perspective. The genetic variants the project discovers will also be used for medically- and phenotypically-relevant studies in these populations.