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The importance of population structure and birth order specific selection in relation to the maintenance and distribution of the Rhesus blood group polymorphism in human populations: evidence that birth order specific marriage and migration patterns in a Spanish Basque village mask the opportunity for incompatibility selection
University Microfilms International • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1989 • Pages: 3, 14, 148
By: Turnbull, Harold Frederick.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
After many years of research on the Rhesus blood group system, investigators still have not found any satisfactory reasons to explain the mechanisms responsible for the maintenance and distribution of this genetic factor in the human population. This work examines various hypotheses regarding this issue and offers an alternative explanation involving the concept of birth order as an important variable affecting the polymorphism. Turnbull presents a mathematical model which permits the comparison of gene frequency effects, birth order specific selection, and population structure on the long term maintenance of this polymorphism. The results of the comparison seem to indicate that gene frequency change is clearly a function of population structure (p. viii). The theoretical implications of these findings are then examined in relation to data from an actual high fertility human population in a rural Spanish Basque village. The dissertation concludes with the presentation of a hypothetical population model for neolithic Europe which the author believes will offer a '…feasible and testable mechanism by which the origin, maintenance and current distribution of the rhesus polymorphism in Europe can be explained' (p. ix).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Genetics
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Basques
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Physical Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1990-1991
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1976, 1977
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ezcurra, Navarra Province, Spain
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Harold Frederick Turnbull
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Riverside, University of California, 1981
- UM 8119583
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-148)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Basques