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Genetic evolution of the Samaritans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

M. H. Cazes  and
B. Bonne-Tamir
M. H. Cazes
Affiliation:
Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques, Paris
B. Bonne-Tamir
Affiliation:
Department of Human Genetics, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv
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Summary

Detailed pedigrees of the small Samaritan isolate covering the last thirteen generations and consisting of 82 founders and 670 descendants allowed calculations of (a) the probability of origin of genes from particular founder members, and (b) the total number of descendants from each founder. Analysis of the matrix of distances between the thirteen generations identified the kind and the direction of the evolution of this community: rapid evolution from the first to the eighth generation due to the small population size, slowly progressing towards a stable state in the last three generations.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , April 1984 , pp. 177 - 187
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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