Genetic diversity in the Caucasus.

Article

Genetic diversity in the Caucasus.

Human biology - 1 Aug 1994

Barbujani G, Nasidze I S, Whitehead G N

Abstract excerpt

We report genetic variation in the Caucasus, a region showing extreme linguistic differentiation. Spatial autocorrelation analysis of 31 alleles in 793 samples and maps of interpolated allele frequencies show significant geographic structure, but the patterns are clinical for only a few alleles....

Topics

Alleles
Altitude
Chromosome Mapping
Ethnicity
Gene Frequency
Genetic Variation
Genetics, Population
Humans
Transcaucasia

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