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Asian

Definition
AI-generated

Broad US OMB racial grouping spanning diverse West, Central, South, and East Asian ancestries.

Topics
Population genetics
Related
Ethnicity Race Ancestry

Why it matters in GWAS

Population structure, demographic history, and mating patterns affect allele frequencies, LD, relatedness, and cross-cohort portability—central to GWAS design and interpretation.

Example usage

"Participant metadata used the U.S. OMB 'Asian' category for reporting, while genetic analyses additionally modeled finer-grained ancestry to avoid over-collapsing heterogeneous groups."

Ethnicity Race 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

  • Hartl DL, Clark AG. (2007). Principles of Population Genetics. Sinauer Associates.
  • Jobling MA, Hurles ME, Tyler-Smith C. (2013). Human Evolutionary Genetics. Garland Science.
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