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Latino

Definition
AI-generated

Pan-regional identity label in the Americas overlapping with Hispanic categories in metadata.

Topics
Ethics, law & society
Related
Ethnicity Hispanic Latino 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

"Downstream interpretation uses Latino to link statistical findings to biological context."

Ethnicity Hispanic Latino 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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