Genetic data on Alghero population (Sardinia): contrast between biological and cultural evidence
| Autor: | Valeria Succa, Pedro Moral, M. Salis, G. Marogna, Giuseppe Vona |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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Genetic Markers
Male Population CONQUEST Gene Frequency Genetic variation Kinship Humans education Allele frequency Alleles Language education.field_of_study Likelihood Functions Polymorphism Genetic Genetic data Contrast (statistics) Genetic Variation language.human_language Geography Genetics Population Phenotype Italy Evolutionary biology Spain Anthropology language Blood Group Antigens Catalan Female Anatomy Demography |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 0002-9483 |
| Popis: | Data on 20 genetic polymorphisms (61 alleles) in the Algehero population on the northwestern coast of Sardinia are presented and discussed in relation to its linguistic peculiarity inside the island. Since the Aragonese (Spain) conquest of Sardinia in the 13th century, the Catalan language, the same as that spoken in Northeastern Spain and certain districts of Southern France, has been used in Alghero even until today. Analysis for heterogeneity of gene frequency distributions indicates that the genetic information obtained on Alghero is adequate to discriminate Sardinians from other neighbouring populations. Genetic variation between populations measured through genetic distances and principal-component analysis shows that the present-day population of Alghero is much closer genetically to Sardinians than to Catalonians. Our genetic results do not support any interpretation of the linguistic affinities between Alghero and Catalonia at present as indicative of biological kinship. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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