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Interethnic genetic differentiation : GM polymorphism in Eastern Senegal |
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| Published in | American Journal of Human Genetics. 1990, vol. 46, no. 2, p. 383-92 | |
| Abstract | Analysis of GM polymorphism has been performed on 1,806 individuals representing three sympatric ethnic groups--Bedik, Fulani, and Mandenkalu--of eastern Senegal. Haplotype frequencies estimated by maximum likelihood have been used to compute common genetic pools between the three samples and a number of other sub-Saharan African populations. Despite extreme linguistic and sociocultural differentiations and very high levels of endogamy, especially in the Bedik and Niokholo Mandenkalu, the three populations share about 90%-95% of their haplotype frequencies in a system which commonly provides strong genetic differentiations. This supports the view that, despite its importance at a large continental scale level, as it is discussed for a set of populations from many regions of sub-Saharan Africa, sociocultural differentiation usually has little effect on local genetic diversity. | |
| Keywords | Demography — Ethnic Groups — Gene Frequency — Haplotypes — Humans — Immunoglobulin Allotypes/genetics — Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains/genetics — Immunoglobulin gamma-Chains/genetics — Male — Phenotype — Genetic Polymorphism — Probability — Senegal | |
| Identifiers | PMID: 2105642 | |
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| Research group | Unité d’anthropologie | |
| Citation (ISO format) | BLANC, Madeleine et al. Interethnic genetic differentiation : GM polymorphism in Eastern Senegal. In: American Journal of Human Genetics, 1990, vol. 46, n° 2, p. 383-92. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:14330 |
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