Table 1

Mean (standard deviation) ancestries for Latino spouses by recruitment site

Wives

Husbands

Ethnicity

Site

Number

African

European

Native American

African

European

Native American

Mexican

All

285

0.078 (0.040)

0.437 (0.175)

0.485 (0.180)

0.080 (0.044)

0.425 (0.171)

0.495 (0.180)

Mexico City

91

0.064 (0.034)

0.322 (0.165)

0.615 (0.172)

0.061 (0.034)

0.322 (0.181)

0.617 (0.194)

Bay Area

194

0.084 (0.040)

0.491 (0.152)

0.425 (0.150)

0.089 (0.045)

0.473 (0.143)

0.438 (0.142)

Puerto Rican

All

377

0.237 (0.141)

0.622 (0.145)

0.141 (0.061)

0.229 (0.127)

0.623 (0.139)

0.148 (0.070)

Puerto Rico

223

0.232 (0.142)

0.625 (0.148)

0.143 (0.060)

0.223 (0.129)

0.629 (0.140)

0.149 (0.069)

New York

154

0.244 (0.138)

0.618 (0.141)

0.138 (0.063)

0.238 (0.125)

0.615 (0.138)

0.147 (0.071)

Risch et al. Genome Biology 2009 10:R132   doi:10.1186/gb-2009-10-11-r132