Consanguinity, inbreeding, and genetic drift in Italy /
In 1951, the geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was teaching in Parma when a student--a priest named Antonio Moroni--told him about rich church records of demography and marriages between relatives. After convincing the Church to open its records, Cavalli-Sforza, Moroni, and Gianna Zei embarked on...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2004
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| Series: | Monographs in population biology ;
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | In 1951, the geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was teaching in Parma when a student--a priest named Antonio Moroni--told him about rich church records of demography and marriages between relatives. After convincing the Church to open its records, Cavalli-Sforza, Moroni, and Gianna Zei embarked on a landmark study that would last fifty years and cover all of Italy. This book assembles and analyzes the team's research for the first time. Using blood testing as well as church records, the team investigated the frequency of consanguineous marriages and its use for estimating inbreedin. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 315 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-311) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400847273 1400847273 |
| Language: | In English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
