HINCAPIE, Martha Lucía et al. An assessment of genetic structure in a Bucaramanga, department of Santander, population sample. Colomb. Med.[online]. 2009, vol. 40, n. 4, pp. 361-372. ISSN 1657-9534. Introduction: The phenomenon of substructure in the populations has been greatly analyzed for several years, and it has been focused especially on the identification and quantification of ethnic mixture present in studies of associative mapping to verify the association of polymorphic markers in the development of complex and common