Article
[Genetic ecological monitoring in human populations: heterozygosity, mtDNA haplotype variation, and genetic load].
Genetika - 1 Nov 2011
Balanovskiĭ O P, Koshel' S M, Zaporozhchenko V V, Pshenichnov A S, Frolova S A, Kuznetsova M A, Baranova E E, Teuchezh I E, Kuznetsova A A, Romashkina M V, Utevskaia O M, Churnosov M I, Villems R, Balanovskaia E V
Abstract excerpt
Yu. P. Altukhov suggested that heterozygosity is an indicator of the state of the gene pool. The idea and a linked concept of genetic ecological monitoring were applied to a new dataset on mtDNA variation in East European ethnic groups. Haplotype diversity (an analog of the average heterozygosity) was shown to gradually decrease northwards. Since a similar trend is known for population density, interlinked...
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