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African super-population (AFR)

Definition
AI-generated

Major African-ancestry super-population in 1000 Genomes Phase 3, grouping ACB, ASW, ESN, GWD, LWK, MSL, and YRI populations.

Topics
Population genetics Cohorts and databases
Related
1000 Genomes Project Ancestry

Why it matters in GWAS

Super-population labels from 1000 Genomes are commonly used for ancestry-aware QC, PCA interpretation, LD reference selection, and cross-population portability checks.

Example usage

"Samples were projected to the AFR reference panel before downstream GWAS and imputation analysis."

1000 Genomes Project Ancestry
Related-term network

Click any node to open that term page.

Node order. The current term is first. Next come every page linked from Related terms, in the same top-to-bottom order as that list. Then new terms appear in two-hop layers: for each of those direct neighbors (in that same order), their related terms are appended if not already listed. A third pass does the same for two-hop nodes. The walk stops when a fixed maximum number of nodes is reached.

References

  • 1000 Genomes Project Consortium. (2015). A global reference for human genetic variation. Nature.
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