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Continent-of-origin admixture studies

http://www.getcited.org/pub/103403801

CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Sweet, Frank W. (University of Florida)
CONFERENCE NAME: Fifth Union, The Melungeon Gathering
CONF. LOCATION: Kingsport, TN
CONFERENCE YEAR: 2004
PUB TYPE: Conference Presentation
SUBJECT(S): Continent-of-origin admixture studies using ancestry-informative markers in autosomal DNA
DISCIPLINE: History
HTTP: http://www.melungeons.com/union/fifthunion.htm
LANGUAGE: English
PUB ID: 103-403-801 (Last edited on 2004/06/20 05:01:56 GMT-6)
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ABSTRACT:
One possible explanation for the high present incidence of sub-Saharan DNA in White Americans (1/3 have 2-20% African admixture) is a relatively high but unnoticed rate of families passing through the color line from Black to White during the 18th and 19th centuries. The triracial isolate communities of the Southeast may have served as a buffer zone or halfway house facilitating such color-line permeability.