Am J Hum Biol. 1997;9(5):595-607. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6300(1997)9:5<595::AID-AJHB7>3.0.CO;2-T.

Estimation of inbreeding, kinship, genetic distances, and population structure from surnames: The island of Hvar, Croatia.

American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council

Diana Roguljić, Igor Rudan, Pavao Rudan

PMID: 28561432 DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6300(1997)9:5<595::AID-AJHB7>3.0.CO;2-T

Abstract

The aim of this study was to estimate inbreeding, kinship, genetic distances, and population structure of the island of Hvar using surnames of the population from 10 villages. Total inbreeding on the island, estimated from the frequency of isonymous marriages, amounted to 0.0228. Total kinship (unreduced variance) of the entire island amounted to 0.0411, a value indicative of very isolated populations with accumulated kinship over time. The analysis of genetic relationships based on surnames among the villages did not reveal the division of the island's villages into two clusters, "eastern" and "western", as was the case in previous studies when clustering was based on biological, biocultural, and sociocultural traits. In addition, kinship and genetic distances determined from surnames revealed a poor fit to an isolation by distance model (for kinship, R

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