Article
Cultural transmission of a sign language when deafness is caused by recessive alleles at two independent loci.
Theoretical population biology - 1 Feb 1994
Aoki K, Feldman M W
Abstract excerpt
Two unlinked autosomal loci are assumed to affect the ability to hear in such a way that homozygosity for the recessive allele at either locus causes deafness. The five deaf genotypes are subject to the same negative selection due to a lower likelihood of marriage, but unmarried deaf persons rema...
Topics
- Child Development
- Child, Preschool
- Culture
- Deafness
- Gene Frequency
- Genes, Dominant
- Genes, Recessive
- Genotype
- Homozygote
- Humans
- Intergenerational Relations
- Learning
- Marriage
- Models, Genetic
- Mutation
- Parent-Child Relations
- Peer Group
- Selection, Genetic