Consanguinity, Inbreeding, and Genetic Drift in Italy (MPB-39) /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. (Luigi Luca), 1922-2018
Otros Autores: Zei, Gianna, Moroni, Antonio
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Inbreeding.
Human population genetics.
Human genetics > Variation.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Demography.
Genotypes.
Genetique des populations.
Consanguinite.
Variabilite genetique.
Genetique des populations humaines > Italie.
Inbreeding > Italie.
Genetic Variation
Genotype
Genetics, Population
Consanguinity
Genetic Drift
Population genetics.
Consanguinity.
Human population genetics > Italy.
Inbreeding > Italy.
Conganguinity > Italy.
Italy.
Italy
Electronic books.
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.

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