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Published Resources Details Journal Article

Author
Summers, K. M., Yenchitsomanus, P., & Chapple, R. M.
Title
Genetic distance analysis using DNA polymorphisms in the alpha-globin gene cluster
In
Annals of Human Biology
Imprint
vol. 14, no. 5, 1987, pp. 393-404
Url
http://doi.org/10.1080/03014468700009211
Abstract

Published frequencies for alleles at the alpha- and zeta-globin gene loci within the alpha-globin gene cluster were used to calculate genetic distances between populations of South East Asia and the Pacific region. When analyses using the alpha-globin alleles, populations are grouped according to the endemicity of malaria while the groupings derived from the embryonic zeta-globin allele frequencies appear to be far less influenced by the incidence of malaria and probably reflect ancestral or chance relationships due to founder effects, migration and small population sizes.

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