The population structure of south-central Bougainville

✍ Scribed by Jonathan S. Friedlaender

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1971
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 816 KB
• Volume: 35
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-9483
• DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330350104

✦ Synopsis

The technique of population structure analysis is described and then applied to blood polymorphic, anthropometric, and demographic data collected from residents of south-central Bougainville Island, Territory of New Guinea. The results from these various analyses are relatively consistent, and support the idea that this theoretical model can be applied successfully to real sets of biological data and that valid conclusions concerning the breeding structure of human populations can be reached. A comparison of breeding structures from various parts of the world reveals how sharply subdivided the breeding structure in Melanesia is, and how relatively rapidly the coefficient of kinship declines over distance in that area.

1 This research has been supported in part by a NSF marriage? and above restricted mifellowship, a NSF dissertation improvement award, gration in geographic or social space, will a Population Council post-doctoral fellowship, grant act to disturb the random mating rela-GM 13482 from NIGMS, and a WHO Visiting Investi- gator award from the Population Genetics Laboratory, tions among gene and genotype frequen-University of Hawaii.