Heterogeneity of long-distance migration in studies of genetic structure.

doi:10.1080/03014468800009461

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Heterogeneity of long-distance migration in studies of genetic structure.

Annals of human biology - 1 Jan 2000

Relethford J H

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One of the assumptions of migration matrix methods of population structure is that long-distance migrants are all sampled from a genetically homogeneous 'outside world'. This assumption has not often been tested. This paper examines migration and surname data from four towns in historical Massach...

Topics

Emigration and Immigration
Genetic Variation
Genetics, Population
History, 19th Century
Humans
Marriage
Massachusetts
Models, Genetic

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