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From Parish Records to DNA Studies: Lessons from the Long-Term Multidisciplinary Research of Hvar Isolate, Croatia

The application of holistic analytic approach in the study of population structure can provide information about the continuity of interaction between intrinsic population characteristics (its gene pool) and a wide spectrum of extrinsic selective impacts through time. In this paper, various measures of interpopulation distances obtained over a continuous 30-year anthropological research in Hvar Island isolate, Croatia, were used to further elaborate this problem. Those included genetic distances (estimated separately from DNA SIR loci and DNA HLA class II polymorphysms, 10 erythrocyte antigens, serum proteins and isoensymes), biological distances (anthropometrical body and head distances, physiological, dermatoglyphic and radiograrumetric bone distances), bio-cultural (migrational kinship estimated for four periods in history and kinship estimated from isonymy) and socio-cultural distances (linguistic -basic and cultural vocabulary) calculated between inhabitants of the isolate settlements of Hvar Island. The results showed that the examined traits do not react to the (micro)evolutionary impacts in the same manner. Some of them are more likely to be associated to specific and different selective pressures (e.g. through natural selection), others are more likely to reveal selective inertia, while for the third group of traits a reasonable interpretation cannot aiways be provided because of the extreme complexity of its determinants.

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