Article
Campora: a young genetic isolate in South Italy.
Human heredity - 1 Jan 2007
Colonna Vincenza, Nutile Teresa, Astore Maria, Guardiola Ombretta, Antoniol Giuliano, Ciullo Marina, Persico M Graziella
Abstract excerpt
Genetic isolates have been successfully used in the study of complex traits, mainly because due to their features, they allow a reduction in the complexity of the genetic models underlying the trait. The aim of the present study is to describe the population of Campora, a village in the South of Italy, highlighting its properties of a genetic isolate. Both historical evidence and multi-locus genetic data (genomic...
Topics
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Demography
- Female
- Founder Effect
- Genetic Markers
- Genetics, Population
- Genotype
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Inbreeding
- Italy
- Linkage Disequilibrium
- Male
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Pedigree
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
