TY - JOUR
T1 - Genetic variability in Chilean Indian populations and its association with geography, language, and culture
AU - Chakraborty, R.
AU - Blanco, R.
AU - Rothhammer, F.
AU - Llop, E.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to Dr. W. J. Schull for his valuable comments during the preparation of the paper. This work was supported in part by a U.S. National Institutes of Health Grant, GM 19513, made available to R. Chakraborty, and U.S. Public Health Service International Post-doctoral Fellowship (No. 1 FO 5 TW-O2007-O2) of which R. Blanco is a recipient.
PY - 1976
Y1 - 1976
N2 - Genetic variability among seven Chilean Indian populations (Aymara, Atacameno, Diaguita, Pehuenche, Mapuche, Alacaluf, and Yagan) is measured in terms of net codon differences per locus from gene frequency data on seven serologic markers. Indices of cultural and linguistic differences are computed surveying the various ethnographic accounts of these tribal populations. Of the variables, culture, language, geography, and the degree of Caucasoid admixture, only geography seems to be the important factor in explaining the variabilities in genetic distances among these populations. An empirical relationship between geographic distance and gene identity is also established and shown graphically.
AB - Genetic variability among seven Chilean Indian populations (Aymara, Atacameno, Diaguita, Pehuenche, Mapuche, Alacaluf, and Yagan) is measured in terms of net codon differences per locus from gene frequency data on seven serologic markers. Indices of cultural and linguistic differences are computed surveying the various ethnographic accounts of these tribal populations. Of the variables, culture, language, geography, and the degree of Caucasoid admixture, only geography seems to be the important factor in explaining the variabilities in genetic distances among these populations. An empirical relationship between geographic distance and gene identity is also established and shown graphically.
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U2 - 10.1080/19485565.1976.9988205
DO - 10.1080/19485565.1976.9988205
M3 - Article
C2 - 959860
AN - SCOPUS:0017156863
SN - 0037-766X
VL - 23
SP - 73
EP - 81
JO - Social Biology
JF - Social Biology
IS - 1
ER -