Population variation in molecular polymorphisms of the short arm of the human X chromosome

Papiha, S. S.; Mastana, Sarabjit S.; Roberts, D. F.; Onyemelukwe, G.C.; Bhattacharya, Siladitya

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“…In recent years, mitochondria1 and nuclear DNA analyses, as well as cytogenetic studies, have opened new channels in the investigation of anatomically modern humans' diversity and relationships (Nei and Roychoudhury, 1974;Horai et al, 1986;Wainscoat et al, 1986;Cann et al, 1987;CavalliSforza et al, 1988;Vosberg, 1989;Long et al, 1990;Rapacz et al, 1991;Papiha et al, 1991;Vigilant et al, 1991;Wilson and Cann, 1992). The main conclusion reached by these researchers is that there has been rapid world-wide replacement by migration from a single source, subsaharan Africa, ca.…”

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Comparison of craniofacial features of major human groups

Hanihara

1996

Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.

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Distance analysis and factor analysis, based on Q-mode correlation coefficients, were applied to 23 craniofacial measurements in 1,802 recent and prehistoric crania from major geographical areas of the Old World. The major findings are as follows: 1) Australians show closer similarities to African populations than to Melanesians. 2) Recent Europeans align with East Asians, and early West Asians resemble Africans. 3) The Asian population complex with regional difference between northern and southern members is manifest. 4) Clinal variations of craniofacial features can be detected in the Afro-European region on the one hand, and Australasian and East Asian region on the other hand. 5) The craniofacial variations of major geographical groups are not necessarily consistent with their geographical distribution pattern. This may be a sign that the evolutionary divergence in craniofacial shape among recent populations of different geographical areas is of a highly limited degree. Taking all of these into account, a single origin for anatomically modern humans is the most parsimonious interpretation of the craniofacial variations presented in this study.

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Comparison of craniofacial features of major human groups

Hanihara

1996

Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.

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Ethnicity and human biology

Pollitzer

1994

American J Hum Biol

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Stanley Garn's book, Human Races (1965), captured the essence of the new genetic concept of ethnic groups as populations which share the same gene pool, shaped by natural selection. Since then new genetic traits, especially DNA polymorphisms, have been employed to build upon his vision. They have proven useful in the forensic sciences, medicine, and the human biology of adaptation, migration, evolution, and phylogeny. Some diseases like sickle cell anemia are controlled by single genes concentrated in a large ethnic group; their alleles are valuable for understanding human biology. Other conditions with a marked genetic component, such as diabetes, heart disease, and osteoporosis, predominate in certain ethnic groups. The new molecular biology tends to support the migration of farmers from west Asia into Europe in the Neolithic, the isolation of the Basques, and the early entrance of people into the New World. Some DNA data also favor the debatable hypothesis of the development of humanity in Africa and its subsequent dispersal. In many cases linguistic distance parallels genetic distance as language tends to influence gene flow. Apolipoproteins, with alleles unique to one major population group, are useful markers of admixture as well as significant for cardiovascular health. The Gullah-speaking Black people of coastal Carolina are distinctive and close to African ancestors in language, culture, and biology, including genetic markers. Modern research confirms that race (by any name) is quantitative rather than qualitative, relative rather than absolute, and dynamic rather than static. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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Mastana

1999

Genomic Diversity

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Population variation in molecular polymorphisms of the short arm of the human X chromosome

Cited by 3 publications

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Comparison of craniofacial features of major human groups

Comparison of craniofacial features of major human groups

Ethnicity and human biology

Classical to Molecular Polymorphisms

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