Publication Date:
1978-09-01
Description:
Multivarate techniques can be used to condense the information for a large number of loci and alleles into one or a few synthetic variables. The geographic distribution of synthetic variables can be plotted by the same technique used in mapping the gene frequency of a single allele. Synthetic maps were constructed for Europe and the Near East, with the use of principal components to condense the information of 38 independent alleles from ten loci. The first principal component summarizes close to 30% of the total information and shows gradients. Maps thus constructed show clines in remarkable agreement with those expected on the basis of the spread of early farming in Europe, thus supporting the hypothesis that this spread was a demic spread rather than a cultural diffusion of farming technology.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Menozzi, P -- Piazza, A -- Cavalli-Sforza, L -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1978 Sep 1;201(4358):786-92.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/356262" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Agriculture
;
Cultural Evolution
;
Europe
;
*Gene Frequency
;
HLA Antigens/*genetics
;
History
;
History, Ancient
;
Humans
;
Models, Biological
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
,
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Computer Science
,
Medicine
,
Natural Sciences in General
,
Physics
Permalink
