Population structure inferred by local spatial autocorrelation: an example from an Amerindian tribal population |
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| Authors: | Sokal Robert R Thomson Barbara A |
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| Institution: | Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, New York 11794-5245, USA. sokal@life.bio.sunysb.edu |
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| Abstract: | Spatial autocorrelation (SA) methods were recently extended to detect local spatial autocorrelation (LSA) at individual localities. LSA statistics serve as useful indicators of local genetic population structure. We applied this method to 15 allele frequencies from 43 villages of a South American tribe, the Yanomama. Based on a network of links
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| Keywords: | local genetic structure Yanomama genetic polymorphism dialect boundaries genetic distance matrices |
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