Table 2.

Mean and SDs of individual ancestry estimates by participant’s and grandparents’ place of birth

Place of birth of participant and grandparents	n	African Ancestry (%)	P*	European Ancestry (%)	P*	Indigenous merican Ancestry (%)	P*
Mexican born	175	3.7 ± 5.5		52.0 ± 20.1		44.3 ± 20.1
U.S. born, grandparents Mexican born	100	4.8 ± 6.4	0.16	47.3 ± 18.7	0.047	47.8 ± 18.8	0.095
Central American born and U.S. born,    grandparents born in Central America	93	10.2 ± 13.4	0.0001	47.5 ± 22.1	0.094	42.3 ± 22.3	0.49
Caribbean born	10	20.2 ± 26.2	0.005	65.9 ± 24.7	0.06	13.9 ± 13.6	0.0001
U.S. born, grandparents Caribbean born	8	11.6 ± 10.3	0.03	67.0 ± 18.5	0.05	21.4 ± 23.5	0.006
South American born	30	3.2 ± 5.1	0.57	55.9 ± 26.1	0.53	40.9 ± 24.5	0.66
U.S. born, grandparents U.S. born	31	4.2 ± 5.4	0.59	60.5 ± 22.1	0.039	35.4 ± 21.1	0.028
U.S. born, grandparents mixed origin†	116	4.8 ± 8.6	0.30	58.0 ± 23.5	0.029	37.3 ± 22.8	0.007

^*Ps are for comparison with Mexican-born Latinas.

^†Women with grandparents from more than one of the five regions (Mexico, Central America, South America, Caribbean, United States).