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Hardcover | 9 November 1992

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This special symposium volume of the SSHB explores the biological effects of human isolation and migration, and how the situations to which they give rise help to elucidate a variety of biological problems, ranging from evolutionary change to disease etiology. The majority of the case studies presented here are by Asian investigators, and provide a uniquely accessible source of information. Besides documenting the results, the book illustrates the different methods employed in such studies. It will be invaluable to those contemplating similar investigations elsewhere, and will be of interest to researchers in a range of disciplines including epidemiology, clinical medicine, demography, anthropology, genetics and evolutionary biology.

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"...represents a very interesting and curious aspect of the exploration of situations resulting from the biological effects of human isolation and migration. These investigations may particularly help to understand and to elucidate a variety of biological problems ranging from evolutionary change to the etiology of the diseases...A real book to meditate." Cellular and Molecular Biology "...overall it is well written." Tibor Koertvelyessy, Human Biology

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List of contributors
Preface
The legacy of the IBP: Presidential Address	p. 1
The distinction between primary and secondary isolates	p. 17
Time trends in the break-up of isolates	p. 23
Factors influencing the frequency of consanguineous marriages in Japan	p. 29
Break-up of isolates	p. 41
Isolates in India: their origin and characterisation	p. 55
Consanguineous marriages and their genetical consequences in some Indian populations	p. 63
Biomedical and immunogenetic variation in isolated populations in India	p. 75
Genetic distance analyses in Israeli groups using classical markers and DNA polymorphisms in the [beta] globin gene	p. 87
Non-random distribution of Gm haplotypes in northern Siberia	p. 107
Allele frequency estimation	p. 112
Genetic affinities of human populations	p. 118
Inherited neurological diseases in island isolates in southern Japan	p. 130
Serological and virological evidence for human T-lymphotropic virus type I infection among the isolated Hagahai of Papua New Guinea	p. 143
Analysis of genes associated with hypercholesterolaemia in the Japanese population	p. 154
Migrant studies and their problems	p. 167
Tokelau: migration and health in a small Polynesian society - a longitudinal study	p. 171
Micromigrations of isolated Tuareg tribes of the Sahara Desert	p. 192
Population structure in the eastern Adriatic: the influence of historical processes, migration patterns, isolation and ecological pressures, and their interaction	p. 204
Diabetes and diabetic macroangiopathy in Japanese-Americans	p. 219
Diabetes and westernisation in Japanese migrants	p. 233
Environmental factors affecting ischemic heart disease	p. 240
Epilogue	p. 249
Index	p. 257
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