Zones of sharp genetic change in Europe are also linguistic boundaries.

doi:10.1073/pnas.87.5.1816

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Zones of sharp genetic change in Europe are also linguistic boundaries.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Mar 1990

Barbujani G, Sokal R R

Abstract excerpt

A newly elaborated method, "Wombling," for detecting regions of abrupt change in biological variables was applied to 63 human allele frequencies in Europe. Of the 33 gene-frequency boundaries discovered in this way, 31 are coincident with linguistic boundaries marking contiguous regions of differ...

Topics

Alleles
Europe
Gene Frequency
Genetic Variation
Genetics, Medical
Humans
Language

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