TY - JOUR AU - Hatin, Wan Isa AU - Nur-Shafawati, Ab Rajab AU - Etemad, Ali AU - Jin, Wenfei AU - Qin, Pengfei AU - Xu, Shuhua AU - Jin, Li AU - Tan, Soon-Guan AU - Limprasert, Pornprot AU - Feisal, Merican Amir AU - Rizman-Idid, Mohammed AU - Zilfalil, Bin Alwi AU - The HUGO Pan-Asian SNP Consortium PY - 2014 DA - 2014/10/30 TI - A genome wide pattern of population structure and admixture in peninsular Malaysia Malays JO - The HUGO Journal SP - 5 VL - 8 IS - 1 AB - The Malays consist of various sub-ethnic groups which are believed to have different ancestral origins based on their migrations centuries ago. The sub-ethnic groups can be divided based on the region they inhabit; the northern (Melayu Kedah and Melayu Kelantan), western (Melayu Minang) and southern parts (Melayu Bugis and Melayu Jawa) of Peninsular Malaysia. We analyzed 54,794 autosomal single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) which were shared by 472 unrelated individuals from 17 populations to determine the genetic structure and distributions of the ancestral genetic components in five Malay sub-ethnic groups namely Melayu Bugis, Melayu Jawa, Melayu Minang, Melayu Kedah, and Melayu Kelantan. We also have included in the analysis 12 other study populations from Thailand, Indonesia, China, India, Africa and Orang Asli sub-groups in Malay Peninsula, obtained from the Pan Asian SNP Initiative (PASNPI) Consortium and International HapMap project database. SN - 1877-6566 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s11568-014-0005-z DO - 10.1186/s11568-014-0005-z ID - Hatin2014 ER -