Variation in allele frequencies among caste groups of the Dhangars of Maharashtra, India: An analysis with Wright's FST statistic

Ranajit Chakraborty; Aravinda Chakravarti; Kailash C. Malhotra

doi:10.1080/03014467700007162

Variation in allele frequencies among caste groups of the Dhangars of Maharashtra, India: An analysis with Wright's F_ST statistic

Ranajit Chakraborty, Aravinda Chakravarti, Kailash C. Malhotra

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

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Abstract

Variations in allelle frequencies at 11 serological and biochemical loci among 21 endogamous Dhangar castes of Maharashtra, India, have been studied using Wright's F_ST statistic. Gene differentiation among these castes is only about 4 per cent at these polymorphic loci. The distributional form of F_ST 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	275-280
Number of pages	6
Journal	Annals of Human Biology
Volume	4
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/03014467700007162
State	Published - 1977

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