Genetic Differentiation of Races of Man as Judged by Single-Locus and Multilocus Analyses
- 1 March 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 111 (978) , 203-212
- https://doi.org/10.1086/283155
Abstract
A reanalysis of previous estimates of the degree of racial differentiation in man based upon blood group frequencies point out systematic underestimates inherent in the methods. A comparison of several measures of genetic distance indicates that the Shannon-Wiener information statistic is not sensitive to the appropriate range of gene frequency differences found between populations of man, and estimates of genetic distance averaged over several or many loci may disguise substantial differentiation. A measure of genetic distance incorporating information from several loci simultaneously is applied to blood group data, and substantial differentiation between races is identified.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- The Apportionment of Human DiversityPublished by Springer Nature ,1972