TY - JOUR
T1 - Variation in allele frequencies among caste groups of the Dhangars of Maharashtra, India
T2 - An analysis with Wright's FST statistic
AU - Chakraborty, Ranajit
AU - Chakravarti, Aravinda
AU - Malhotra, Kailash C.
N1 - Funding Information:
The field work on which the analysis is based was supported by a grant from the University Grants Commission, New Delhi, India. The data analysis was possible through U.S. public health service grants from the United States National Institutes of Health. We are grateful to Professors W. J. Schull and M. Nei for their comments and interest in this work.
PY - 1977
Y1 - 1977
N2 - Variations in allelle frequencies at 11 serological and biochemical loci among 21 endogamous Dhangar castes of Maharashtra, India, have been studied using Wright's FST statistic. Gene differentiation among these castes is only about 4 per cent at these polymorphic loci. The distributional form of FST is explicable by random genetic drift at this early stage of differentiation of these caste groups. The empirical relationship between the average allele frequencies and the ratio of within to total gene diversity of the caste groups is also studied.
AB - Variations in allelle frequencies at 11 serological and biochemical loci among 21 endogamous Dhangar castes of Maharashtra, India, have been studied using Wright's FST statistic. Gene differentiation among these castes is only about 4 per cent at these polymorphic loci. The distributional form of FST is explicable by random genetic drift at this early stage of differentiation of these caste groups. The empirical relationship between the average allele frequencies and the ratio of within to total gene diversity of the caste groups is also studied.
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U2 - 10.1080/03014467700007162
DO - 10.1080/03014467700007162
M3 - Article
C2 - 900891
AN - SCOPUS:0017399006
VL - 4
SP - 275
EP - 280
JO - Annals of Human Biology
JF - Annals of Human Biology
SN - 0301-4460
IS - 3
ER -