TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cavalli-Sforza,L.L.
AU  - Moroni,Antonio
AU  - Zei,Gianna
TI  - Consanguinity, inbreeding, and genetic drift in Italy /Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Antonio Moroni, and Gianna Zei
T2  - Monographs in population biology
SN  - 9781400847273
AV  - GN480 .C667 2004
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Conganguinity
KW  - Italy
KW  - Inbreeding
KW  - Human population genetics
KW  - Human genetics
KW  - Variation
KW  - Consanguinity
KW  - Population genetics
KW  - Genetic Drift
KW  - Genetics, Population
KW  - Genotype
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; History of this investigation and structure of this book --; Customs and legislation affecting consanguineous marriages, with special attention to the Catholic church --; Demographic Factors affecting the frequencies of consanguineous marriage --; a study in northern Emilia --; Probability of consanguineous marriages --; Consanguinity, inbreeding, and observed genetic drift in the Parma Valley --; A computer simulation of the upper Parma Valley population --; Island 149 --; Effects of inbreeding on normal and pathological phenotypes --; Consanguineous marriages in Italy : data from the Vatican archives --; Geography of demes in Italy --; Conclusions; 2; b
N2  - 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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