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Population structure in Eastern Adriatic - analysis of serogenetic polymorphisms

Allele frequencies of three enzyme and three proteine loci (ACP, EstD, PGM and HP, PI, TF) were determined in six rural populations of the northern Adriatic island of Krk, Croatia. Allele frequencies were used to compute genetic distances (E2) after which a model-free approach (distance matrix correlations) was employed. The studied rural communities revealed isolation (endogamy rate of 87, 6) and clusterisation in to two groups which coincides with known ethnohistorical events and contemporary migrational data. Spearman R correlation coefficient between genetic and geographic distances (r=0, 05) and genetic and linguistic distances (r=0, 143) are not significant, in contrast with genetic distances and migration kinship (-0, 599) were is a significant corelation. The results indicate bio-cultural and socio-cultural events, rather than geographical distances, to be the primary determinants of anthropogenetic structure of the studied island population groups. The contribution of serogenetic polymorphisms analysis to holistic anthropological apprehension of human (micro)evolutionary processes in contemporary European populations is discussed.

population structure; serogenetic polymorphisms; population genetics; anthropology

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