Generational change in skin color variation among Habbani Yemeni Jews.

Abstract excerpt

The Habbani Yemeni Jews were a religious isolate in Yemen for centuries. Since a bottleneck in the late eighteenth century the population, composed of six partrilineages, has steadily grown. Isonymy analysis of Habbani genealogies reveals a significant increase in lineage endogamy by the early twentieth century, suggesting that microdifferentiation of Habbani population genetic structure along the patrilineages...

Topics

• Female
• Gene Pool
• Genetic Variation
• Genetics, Population
• Humans
• Jews
• Male
• Pedigree
• Population Dynamics
• Skin Pigmentation
• Yemen