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Ethnohistoric, linguistic and genetic patterns of population structuring: Latest doubts and dilemmas

Variability in patterns of population structuring arise from a complex and continuos interplay of various intrinsic population (gene pool) and extrinsic (cultural, demographic, economic, ecological, epidemiological etc.) factors responsible for shaping dynamic processes of gene flow and genetic drift. The study of human variability therefore relies on holistic analytic approach to the analysis of population structuring. in this study various measures of biological (phenotypic) (demographic and radiogrammetric, genetic (red blood enzymes, serum proteins, HLA and STR), bio-cultural (migration and isonymy) and cultural (linguistic) distances were estimated for the rural inhabitants of two Adriatic islands � the island of Hvar (an example for linear model) and the island Krk (an example of non-linear model). Correlations among different matrices were analysed using Mantel's test of matrix correspondence. The relationship between biological (phenotypic genetic, bio-cultural, cultural measures of distance and/or similarity and geographic distances was assessed by applying the regression analysis of Malecot� s � isolation by distance� model. this investigation of population structure of the rural communities for two Adriatic islands indicates the importance of different (micro)evolutionary forces which act with different intensity upon different genetic and biological characteristics as well as the irregularity of correlations between biological (phenotypic, genetic, bio-cultural, cultural and geographic distances.

population structure; anthropology; population genetics

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