Naslov
Factor analysis in the holistic study of population structure

Autori
Rudan, Igor

Izvornik
Brazilian Journal of Genetics (0100-8455) 19 (1996), 2;

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, kongresno priopcenje, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
factor analysis; holism; population structure

Sažetak
In the isolate population of eastern Adriatic, Croatia, measures of biological and genetic distances between inhabitants of five island populations were calculated. The sample included a total of 6, 286 examinees from 43 villages, and the methods for data collecting and processing were standardised for all five island populations. Patterns of correlations between 17 distance matrices based on examined traits in both sexes were analysed based on Mantel's test of matrix correspondence. A higher-order varimax rotation over factor correlation matrix indicated that the major source for population variability was neither sex-related nor variable-specific, but rather lied in the interaction of population intrinsic (variational) characteristics, and the extrinsic (homogenisational) impacts of their environment.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Javno zdravstvo i zdravstvena zaštita

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