Geographic patterns: how to identify them and why.

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Geographic patterns: how to identify them and why.

Human biology - 1 Feb 2000

Barbujani G

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Geographic patterns of genetic diversity allow us to make inferences about population histories and the evolution of inherited disease. The statistical methods describing genetic variation in space, such as estimation of genetic variances, mapping of allele frequencies, and principal components analysis, have opened up the possibility to reconstruct demographic processes whose effects have been tested by a...

Topics

Biological Evolution
Chromosome Mapping
Cluster Analysis
Diffusion of Innovation
Emigration and Immigration
Factor Analysis, Statistical
Forecasting
Gene Frequency
Genetic Variation
Humans
Models, Genetic
Molecular Epidemiology
Mutation
Residence Characteristics
Topography, Medical

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PMID: 10721615

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