Title VI and Section 1557 prohibit discrimination against individuals, including those who are or perceived to be Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, or Buddhist, or of another religious group, if the discrimination is based on their ancestry or ethnic characteristics.

To provide a resource for assessing continental ancestry in a wide variety of genetic studies, we identified, validated, and characterized a set of 128 ancestry informative markers (AIMs). The markers were chosen for informativeness, genome-wide distribution, and genotype reproducibility on two platforms (TaqMan assays and Illumina arrays). We analyzed genotyping data from 825 subjects with diverse ancestry, including European, East Asian, Amerindian, African, South Asian, Mexican, and Puerto Rican. A comprehensive set of 128 AIMs and subsets as small as 24 AIMs are shown to be useful tools for ascertaining the origin of subjects from particular continents, and to correct for population stratification in admixed population sample sets. Our findings provide general guidelines for the application of specific AIM subsets as a resource for wide application. We conclude that investigators can use TaqMan assays for the selected AIMs as a simple and cost efficient tool to control for differences in continental ancestry when conducting association studies in ethnically diverse populations.


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To determine if you are eligible for membership in a federally recognized tribe, contact the tribe, or tribes, you claim ancestry from. It is the individual tribes who set tribal enrollment requirements. Additional information on tracing American Indian or Alaska Native ancestry can be found below:

AncestryDNA is a subsidiary of Ancestry LLC. AncestryDNA offers a direct-to-consumer genealogical DNA test.[51] Consumers provide a sample of their DNA to the company for analysis. AncestryDNA then uses DNA sequences to infer family relationships with other Ancestry DNA users and to provide what it calls an "ethnicity estimate". This "ethnicity estimate" uses 700,000 markers which is only about .02% of all genetic markers that could be tested.[52] Customers should not believe they are seeing all of their ethnic background, but taking multiple tests is useful when combined with using ancestry.com's genealogy web searches to find possible unexpected admixtures. Previously, Ancestry.com also offered paternal Y-chromosome DNA and maternal mitochondrial DNA tests, but those were discontinued in June 2014.[53] The company describes the technical process of testing in a scientific white paper. In July 2020, the company claimed that their database contained 18 million completed DNA kits bought by customers.[54][46][55]

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 As a public service, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) publishes this list of elementary-secondary and post-secondary institutions that are currently under investigation for discrimination involving shared ancestry. OCR updates the list weekly. For the full list of cases under investigation, please see Pending Cases Currently Under Investigation at Elementary-Secondary and Post-Secondary Schools.

The study, published in Nature Communications, shows that people with European ancestry, who were previously treated as a genetically homogenous group in large-scale genetic studies, have clear evidence of mixed genetic lineages, known as admixture. As such, the results from previous genome-wide association studies that do not account for admixture in their examinations of people with European ancestry should be re-evaluated.

To look at European genetic ancestry, the researchers collated data in published genetic association studies and generated a reference panel of genomic data that included 19,000 individuals of European ancestry across 79 populations in Europe and European Americans in the U.S., capturing ancestral diversity not seen in other large catalogs of human genomic variation.

In this Article, to improve our understanding of the biology of PAU in multiple populations, we conducted substantially larger ancestry-specific GWAS of PAU followed by a cross-ancestry meta-analysis in 1,079,947 individuals from multiple cohorts. We identified 85 independent risk variants in participants of EUR ancestry and 110 in the within-ancestry and cross-ancestry meta-analyses. We investigated the shared genetic architectures of PAU across different ancestries and performed fine mapping for causal variants by combining information from multiple ancestries. We identified dozens of genes linked to brain with convergent evidence. A drug repurposing analysis identified potential medications that have the potential to inform further pharmacological studies. Overall, these findings substantially augment the number of loci that contribute to the risk of PAU, which increases our power to investigate the causal relationships of PAU with other diseases, demonstrating similarity in the genetic architecture across ancestries and helps identify potential druggable targets whose therapeutic potential requires empirical evaluation.

a, Fine mapping of causal variants in 85 regions in EUR. b, Ninety-two regions in a cross-ancestry analysis were fine mapped and a direct comparison was done for these regions in EUR. c, Comparison for the highest PIPs from cross-ancestry and EUR-only fine mapping in the 92 regions. Red dots are the regions fine mapped across EUR, AFR and LA; blue dots are the regions fine mapped across EUR and AFR; green dots are the regions fine mapped across EUR and LA; and black dots are the regions only fine mapped in EUR. FM, fine mapping.

Independent genetic signals from the cross-ancestry meta-analysis were searched in OpenTargets.org37 for druggability and medication target status based on their nearest genes. Among them, OPRM1 implicated naltrexone and GABRA4 may implicate acamprosate, both current treatments for AUD. Additionally, DRD2, CACNA1C, DPYD, PDE4B, KLB, BRD3, NCAM1, FTO and MAPT were identified as druggable genes.

We report here the largest multi-ancestry GWAS for PAU so far, comprising over 1 million individuals and including 165,952 AUD/AD cases. The inclusion of multiple ancestries both broadened the findings and demonstrated that the genetic architecture of PAU is substantially shared across these populations. Cross-ancestry fine mapping improved the identification of potential causal variants, and cross-ancestry PRS analysis was a better predictor of alcohol-related traits in an independent sample than single-ancestry PRS. We prioritized multiple genes with convergent evidence linking association to PAU with gene expression and chromatin interaction in the brain, and we investigated genetic correlations with multiple traits in AFR, also not possible previously. On the basis of these advances, we identified existing medications predicted to be potential treatments for PAU, which can be tested.

In summary, we report here a large multi-ancestry GWAS and meta-analysis for PAU, in which we focused our analyses in three main directions. First, we demonstrated that there is substantial shared genetic architecture of PAU across multiple populations. Second, we analyzed gene prioritization for PAU using multiple approaches, including cross-ancestry fine mapping, gene-based association, brain-tissue TWAS and fine mapping, and H-MAGMA for chromatin interaction. We identified many genes associated with PAU with biological support, extending our understanding of the brain biology that substantially modifies PAU risk and expands opportunities for investigation using in vitro methods and animal models. These genes are potential targets for downstream functional studies and studies of potential pharmacological intervention based on the drug repurposing results. Third, we investigated the genetic relationship between PAU and many traits, which was possible in populations of AFR ancestries for the first time.

Lifetime DSM-IV diagnosis of AD in both EUR and AFR ancestries were analyzed by PGC, with details reported previously8. This included 5,638 individuals from Australia. To avoid overlap with the new QIMR Berghofer cohorts, we re-analyzed the PGC data without two Australian cohorts: Australian Alcohol and Nicotine Studies and Brisbane Longitudinal Twin Study. This yielded 9,938 cases and 30,992 controls of EUR ancestry and 3,335 cases and 2,945 controls of AFR ancestry.

We estimated the genetic correlations between different ancestries using Popcorn76, which can estimate both the genetic-effect correlation (tag_hash_122ge) as correlation coefficient of the per-allele SNP effect sizes and the genetic-impact correlation (tag_hash_123gi) as the correlation coefficient of the ancestry-specific allele variance-normalized SNP effect sizes. Populations in 1000 Genomes were used as reference for their corresponding population. A large sample size and number of SNPs are required for accurate estimation, which explains the nonrobust estimates for EAS and SAS samples.

We facilitate collaborations, discussions, and projects to investigate the use of population frameworks in clinical genetics and genomics. Our mission is to provide guidelines on clinical applications of diversity data (e.g., race, ethnicity, and genetic ancestry) that are evidence-based, scientifically rigorous, and ethically responsible.

The list below reflects institutions that are currently under investigation for possible discrimination based on shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics in Fiscal Year 2024 as of November 16, 2023. Five of the complaints allege antisemitic harassment and two allege anti-Muslim harassment. For a full list of open investigations involving shared ancestry, please see the OCR website on Open Title VI Shared Ancestry Investigations.

It's not just consumer DNA testing companies feeling the impact. Francis deSouza, chief executive of Illumina, maker of DNA sequencing machines, noted in its earnings call last summer that the entire segment was down. DeSouza said his company is taking a "cautious view" of the market for ancestry and health tests. ff782bc1db

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