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Please enter email address to continue. Please enter valid email address to continue. Chrome Safari Continue. Be the first to know. Moreover, increasing the number of AIMs did not increase the sensibility, although the specificity was higher.

It is worth noting that no other South American populations were included, which would most certainly reduce the specificity even more. These results point out the complexity of BGA inference in highly admixed populations as those from South America and the large variation in the admixture proportions present in the population from Rio de Janeiro.

In a recent study, Pfaffelhuber et al. In summary, we illustrated the differences that can be expected when inferring ancestry or the populational origin of genetic profiles from South American admixed populations. Similar differences are expected to be present in other AIM sets with comparable characteristics in terms of the number of markers and genetic differentiation among source populations.

Ancestry estimates are not only influenced by the number of markers included in the panel, but it is also essential to assess the level of differentiation that these markers provide among the reference populations. As seen in this work, there is a fine balance in the interplay of these factors.

The analysis of ancestry estimates at the population and individual levels helped to disclose what aspects to consider when selecting markers for an ancestry inference panel. Nevertheless, ancestry analyses will always present some degree of error when performing individual and population assignments. The focus should be to identify strategies for marker selection that minimize the error rate and increase the accuracy of the ancestry inference.

Notwithstanding, the results obtained showed that even when the differences in estimates at the population level were minimized through the selection of a balanced group of markers or the use of the combined set, the errors at the individual level remained too high, demonstrating the need for a much higher number of markers for this purpose. In the future, it would be interesting to perform investigations considering panels with higher resolution and also explore admixed populations with different number of source contributors to compare how the number of parental populations influences the ancestry results for different AIM panels.

Although it was not the scope in this work, an aspect to consider when inferring ancestry is the impact of the selection of appropriate reference populations. The admixture patterns in South America present differential contributions of several African and European populations from different regions along the continent. As an example, recent studies have attested that the presence of Northern Europeans is more restricted to the South, whereas Western European admixture events are more generalized Montinaro et al.

The panels evaluated in this work have been designed to maximize differences between continents and are commonly used to ascertain main continental ancestry contributions.

Finer-scale admixture patterns within the South American continent have most recently been addressed with genome wide studies based on high density SNP data Montinaro et al. These studies have attested the complexity of the admixture dynamics of South America.

For the purposes of direct comparison of different datasets and other literature data, we have considered Yorubans, Central and British Europeans, and 47 Native Americans from several groups as references for all the populations studied. We used all available data for Native Americans and selected a random subset of Africans and Europeans, to avoid large differences in the effective size between reference datasets.

These individuals and the reduced sample size of each reference group are not necessarily the most appropriate references when looking particularly at the history of the Rio de Janeiro population. However, this work aimed to investigate how ancestry inferences fluctuate according to the number of loci used, the balance of the AIM panels, and the differentiation these AIMs provide.

As such, the number and populations used for reference data will have minor impact on the conclusions of the study. Nevertheless, we should highlight that when assessing ancestry patterns for population and forensic genetic studies, it is important to consider the specific history of each population, and select a collection of reference individuals that is representative and better reflects those events.

VP and LG conceived and supervised the study, and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. CB and NM helped with data interpretation and manuscript drafting.

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