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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

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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 different language families, languages, or dialects. The remaining two boundaries (through Iceland and Greece) separate...

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PMID: 2308939
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.5.1816
PMCID: PMC53574

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