A Demographic Profile of the People of Jammu and Kashmir 4. Selection Intensity

Association of Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha -308 G>A Polymorphism With Rheumatoid Arthritis in Two North Indian Cohorts

“…Therefore, the effect of inbreeding in Jammu and Kashmir population could have lead to an increased minor allele frequency in the population. 37 In both population groups, females were more affected than males (65% in Jammu and Kashmir, and 68.7% in Punjab). This finding was in line with other studies from populations of France, America, Taiwan and Netherlands which have also reported higher percentage of female RA patients (78%, 75.7%, 75.4%, and 73.5%, respectively).…”

Demorgaphy of the Tribal Groups of Rajasthan: 4. Selection Intensity

“…However, in India, many other populations, tribes with varying levels of development have recorded such trend, i.e. higher contribution of fertility than mortality component to the total index of selection (Ghosh, 1970;Basu, 1972;Mukherjee, 1972;Talukdar, 1971;Murthy and Ramesh, 1978;Reddy and Lakshmanudu, 1979;Bhasin and Kshatriya, 1990;Bhasin and Nag, 2002).…”

“…The fertility component in them is at least two times the magnitude of the mortality component in contrast to the populations with simpler technologies. Spuhlar (1962Spuhlar ( , 1976 reviewed and compared a large number of studies from all over the world and pointed out that the value of I ranged from 0.23 among Hutterites in the United States and In India too, several studies have attempted to measure the total potential of selection in various populations through differential fertility and mortality and study the effects of various factors including economic, socio-cultural, and physical environmental factors as, altitude etc., on the same (Basu 1967(Basu , 1972Ghosh, 1970;Talukdar, 1971;Mukherjee, 1972;Reddy and Mukherjee, 1975;Chaudhari and Nag 1976;Chakravarty, 1976;Barua, 1976Barua, , 1983Murty and Ramesh, 1978;Reddy and Ladshmanudu, 1979;Gupta, 1980;Rao and Murty, 1984;Padmanabha, 1985;Basu et al, 1988;Bhasin and Kshatriya, 1990;Suri Babu and Bhasin, 1991;Chachra Paul and Bhasin, 1998;Bhasin and Nag, 2002). It may be mentioned here that the index values reported by Ghosh (1970) and Basu (1972) estimated for the Kotas seem to be the highest among Indian populations studied so far (1.37 and 2.25, re spectively).…”

Demorgaphy of the Tribal Groups of Rajasthan: 1. Population Structure

“…Spuhlar (1962,1976) reviewed and compared a large number of studies from all over the world and pointed out that the value of I ranged from 0.23 among Hutterites in the United States and In India too, several studies have attempted to measure the total potential of selection in various populations through differential fertility and mortality and study the effects of various factors including economic, socio-cultural, and physical environmental factors as, altitude etc., on the same (Basu 1967(Basu , 1972Ghosh, 1970;Talukdar, 1971;Mukherjee, 1972;Reddy and Mukherjee, 1975;Chaudhari and Nag 1976;Chakravarty, 1976;Barua, 1976Barua, , 1983Murty and Ramesh, 1978;Reddy and Ladshmanudu, 1979;Gupta, 1980;Rao and Murty, 1984;Padmanabha, 1985;Basu et al, 1988;Bhasin and Kshatriya, 1990;Suri Babu and Bhasin, 1991;Chachra Paul and Bhasin, 1998;Bhasin and Nag, 2002). It may be mentioned here that the index values reported by Ghosh (1970) and Basu (1972) estimated for the Kotas seem to be the highest among Indian populations studied so far (1.37 and 2.25, re spectively).…”