Obesity and diabetes rates are high in Native Hawaiians (NHs) who commonly have mixed ancestries. People of Asian ancestry experience a high risk of type 2 diabetes despite the relatively low body ...

Copy number variations (CNVs) are usually defined as DNA segments larger than 1 kb that present different numbers of copies among two or more genomes. By changing gene dosage, CNVs can affect gene ...

Introduction: Families of admixed ancestry are routinely excluded from traditional linkage analysis (LOD score) or are analyzed as deriving from a homogeneous population of the proband's ethnicity.