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Testing hypotheses on processes of genetic and linguistic change in the Caucasus.

Human biology - 1 Oct 1994

Barbujani G, Whitehead G N, Bertorelle G, Nasidze I S

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Extensive genetic diversity exists in the populations of the Caucasus. Various hypotheses on its origin and evolution were tested by comparing genetic, geographic, and linguistic distances. Seventeen polymorphic loci and 107 localities were considered, and Mantel tests of matrix association were carried out. Genetic differences correlate more with linguistic than with geographic distances; but when populations...

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Alleles
Altitude
Biological Evolution
Gene Frequency
Genetic Variation
Genetics, Population
Language
Polymorphism, Genetic
Transcaucasia

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PMID: 8001913

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