Article
Spatial differentiation of RH and GM haplotype frequencies in Sub-Saharan Africa and its relation to linguistic affinities.
Human biology - 1 Jun 1991
Excoffier L, Harding R M, Sokal R R, Pellegrini B, Sanchez-Mazas A
Abstract excerpt
This study analyzes patterns of variation in eight GM and seven Rhesus (RH) haplotypes across sub-Saharan Africa. We examine the concordance with genetic patterns of both geographic and language-family relationships by spatial analysis and ordination techniques. The genetic variation has significant spatial structure, but positive autocorrelation declines neither asymptotically nor proportionally with increasing...
Topics
- Africa, Central
- Africa, Southern
- Ethnicity
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin Gm Allotypes
- Language
- Models, Genetic