Consanguinity, inbreeding, and genetic drift in Italy /
In 1951, the geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was teaching in Parma when a student--a priest named Antonio Moroni--told him about rich church records of demography and marriages between relatives. After convincing the Church to open its records, Cavalli-Sforza, Moroni, and Gianna Zei embarked on...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2004.
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Colección: | Monographs in population biology ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. History of this investigation and structure of this book
- 2. Customs and legislation affecting consanguineous marriages, with special attention to the Catholic church
- 3. Demographic Factors affecting the frequencies of consanguineous marriage
- a study in northern Emilia
- 4. Probability of consanguineous marriages
- 5. Consanguinity, inbreeding, and observed genetic drift in the Parma Valley
- 6. A computer simulation of the upper Parma Valley population
- 7. Island 149
- 8. Effects of inbreeding on normal and pathological phenotypes
- 9. Consanguineous marriages in Italy : data from the Vatican archives
- 10. Geography of demes in Italy
- 11. Conclusions.