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    Principal Component Analysis of our Peruvian samples of gastric cancer cases, their controls, and Native Americans in the context of HapMap-III European, African, and Mexican individuals, and distribution of Native American ancestry in cases and controls

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    <p>(<b>box</b>)<b>.</b> Each individual was genotyped for 103 ancestry informative markers validated by Yaeger et al. (2008). We represent the first (horizontal) and second (vertical) principal components, which capture the 35.3% and 7.7% of total variance, respectively. HapMap individuals: YRI: Yoruba from Nigeria, LWK: Luhya from Kenya, ASW: African American from Southwest USA, MKK: Maasai from Kenya, CEU: Utah residents with European ancestry, TSI: Toscani from Italy, MEX: Mexican ancestry resident in Los Angeles. Peruvian Native Americans: Shimaa (SHI) and Ashaninkas (ASH) from the Matsiguenga ethnic group, and individuals from Puno in the Andes (PU). The box within the figure shows the density plot and means (vertical lines) of Native American ancestry in the gastric cancer cases (yellow) and controls (brown).</p
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