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According to one genetic study the ancestry of the Garifuna people on average, is 76% African, 20% Arawak/Carib and 4% European.<ref>Crawford, M.H. 1997 [http://www2.ku.edu/~lba/courses/articles/Crawford%20Carib.pdf Biocultural adaptation to disease in the Caribbean: Case study of a migrant population] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105001105/http://www2.ku.edu/~lba/courses/articles/Crawford%20Carib.pdf |date=5 November 2012 }}. Journal of Caribbean Studies. Health and Disease in the Caribbean. 12(1): 141–155.</ref> The admixture levels vary greatly between island and Central American Garinagu Communities with Stann Creek, Belize Garinagu having 79.9% African, 2.7% European and 17.4% Amerindian and Sandy Bay, St. Vincent Garinagu having 41.1% African, 16.7% European and 42.2% Amerindian.<ref>Crawford, M.H. 1983 [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/ajpa.1330260508/asset/1330260508_ftp.pdf The anthropological genetics of the black The anthropological genetics of the Black Caribs (Garifuna) of Central America and the Caribbean ]. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology. 26: 161–192 (1983).</ref> According to one genetic study the ancestry of the Garifuna people on average, is 76% African, 20% Arawak/Carib and 4% European.<ref>Crawford, M.H. 1997 [http://www2.ku.edu/~lba/courses/articles/Crawford%20Carib.pdf Biocultural adaptation to disease in the Caribbean: Case study of a migrant population] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105001105/http://www2.ku.edu/~lba/courses/articles/Crawford%20Carib.pdf |date=5 November 2012 }}. Journal of Caribbean Studies. Health and Disease in the Caribbean. 12(1): 141–155.</ref> The admixture levels vary greatly between island and Central American Garinagu communities, with a 1983 study estimating genetic admixture percentages for the Garinagu of [[Stann Creek, Belize]] at 79.9% African, 2.7% European and 17.4% Amerindian, while estimating the genetic admixture percentages for Garinagu of [[New Sandy Bay Village|Sandy Bay, St. Vincent]] at 41.1% African, 16.7% European and 42.2% Amerindian genetic ancestry.<ref name="Crawford"/>

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