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Genetic ancestry and ethnic identity in Ecuador.
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- Genetic ancestry and population structure in the All of Us Research Program cohort.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Signatures of natural selection may indicate a genetic basis for the beneficial effects of oily fish intake in indigenous people from coastal Ecuador.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2025Article
- Peruvian Population Genomics: Unraveling the Genetic Landscape and Admixture Dynamics of Urban Populations.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Ecuador genetic mosaic: biological and adaptive variations across Mestizos, Native Amerindians, and Afro-Ecuadorians. Implications for public health and precision medicine.Frontiers in genetics · 2025Review
- Genetics of Latin American Diversity Project: Insights into population genetics and association studies in admixed groups in the Americas.Cell genomics · 2024Article
- Amphimeriasis in Ecuador-Prevalence, Knowledge, and Socio-Cultural Practices Among Indigenous Chachi and Montubios Populations: A Mixed-Methods Cross-Sectional Study.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2024Article
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- The development and validation of a survey to measure fecal-oral child exposure to zoonotic enteropathogens: The FECEZ Enteropathogens Index.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Genotypes in an Ecuadorian Population: A Preliminary Study.Advances in virology · 2024Article
- Single nucleotide variants in theFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2024Observational
- Genetic basis and spatial distribution of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in ecuadorian ethnic groups: a malaria perspective.Malaria journal · 2023Article
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Abstract
We investigated the ancestral origins of four Ecuadorian ethnic groups-Afro-Ecuadorian, Mestizo, Montubio, and the Indigenous Tsáchila-in an effort to gain insight on the relationship between ancestry, culture, and the formation of ethnic identities in Latin America. The observed patterns of genetic ancestry are largely concordant with ethnic identities and historical records of conquest and colonization in Ecuador. Nevertheless, a number of exceptional findings highlight the complex relationship between genetic ancestry and ethnicity in Ecuador. Afro-Ecuadorians show far less African ancestry, and the highest levels of Native American ancestry, seen for any Afro-descendant population in the Americas. Mestizos in Ecuador show high levels of Native American ancestry, with substantially less European ancestry, despite the relatively low Indigenous population in the country. The recently recognized Montubio ethnic group is highly admixed, with substantial contributions from all three continental ancestries. The Tsáchila show two distinct ancestry subgroups, with most individuals showing almost exclusively Native American ancestry and a smaller group showing a Mestizo characteristic pattern. Considered together with historical data and sociological studies, our results indicate the extent to which ancestry and culture interact, often in unexpected ways, to shape ethnic identity in Ecuador.
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