ISBN:
9780511983603
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xi, 286 pages)
Series Statement:
Society for the Study of Human Biology symposium series 27
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
304.5
Keywords:
Human population genetics
;
Human population genetics / Tropics
;
Populationsgenetik
;
Tropen
;
Konferenzschrift 1985
;
Konferenzschrift 1985
;
Konferenzschrift 1985
;
Tropen
;
Populationsgenetik
Abstract:
This volume considers the genetic variability of human populations, particularly in the tropics: its origins and maintenance, and its contribution to the phenotypic variability of complex characters. The first section deals with the ways of analysing genetic variation and provides a valuable review of relevant developments in molecular biology. The origin and maintenance of genetic diversity is considered in the second section with data presented for Pacific, African, Asian and Central American populations. The final section concerns characters in which the genetic contribution to variability is complex and shows how such characters may be used to elucidate biological problems of affinity and differentiation, of adaptation and survival. Published as part of the Decade of the Tropics research programme of the International Union of Biological Sciences, this volume will be of particular interest to human geneticists, physical and biological anthropologists
Description / Table of Contents:
Genetic polymorphisms : a widening panorama / D.F. Roberts -- Some implications of improved electrophoresis techniques for population genetics / S.S. Papiha -- HLA variation in the tropics / J. Wentzel -- Chromosome polymorphism in humans / H.G. Schwarzacher -- Restriction fragment length polymorphisms in the human genome / D.N. Cooper & J. Schmidtke -- Nucleotide sequences, restriction maps, and human mitochondrial DNA diversity / R.L. Cann -- Mitochondrial DNA variation in eastern highlanders of Papua New Guinea / M. Stoneking, K. Bhatia & A.C. Wilson -- The contribution of polymorphisms in mtDNA to population genetic studies / B. Bonne-Tamir & L.L. Cavalli-Sforza -- Human genetic diversity in south-east Asia and the western Pacific / R.L. Kirk -- Malaria-protective alleles in southern Africa : relict alleles of no health significance / T. Jenkins & M. Ramsay -- The genetic origin of the variability of the phenotypic expression of the Hb S gene / D. Labie [and others] --
Description / Table of Contents:
Origin and maintenance of genetic variation in Black Carib populations of St. Vincent and Central America / M.H. Crawford -- Historical and demographic factors and the genetic structure of an Afro-American community of Nicaragua / G. Battistuzzi [and others] -- Migration and genetic polymorphisms in some Congo peoples / G. Spedini [and others] -- Population structure studies and genetic variability in humans / L.B. Jorde -- Inbreeding and the incidence of recessive disorders in the populations of Karnataka, South India / A.H. Bittles, A. Radha Rama Devi & N. Appaji Rao -- Genetic diversity at the albumin locus / F.W. Lorey & D.G. Smith -- Significance of dermatoglyphics in studies of population genetic variation in man / G. Hauser -- Polymorphisms of red-green vision among populations of the tropics / A. Adam -- Reductions in body size and the preservation of genetic variability in tropical populations / W.A. Stini --
Description / Table of Contents:
Genetic isolates and the search for causal mechanisms of disease / R.M. Garruto
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511983603
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https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511983603
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