Many healthrelated variables show spatial distributions. Fields such as human genetics, population genetics, demography, epidemiology and public health furnish spatial data and this project is concerned with appropriate statistical techniques for analyzing them and inferring underlying spatial processes from observed spatial patterns. We propose to develop techniques for characterizing spatial data detecting transition zones and defining clones and patches. We shall also develop test of various types of hypotheses for spatial data analyzing choropleth maps of gene frequencies testing boundaries of regions, analyzing spatial data as distances, and experimenting with restricted randomization procedures. Significance tests for the difference between two correlogram will be explored. Inferences from gene frequency surfaces to processes will be investigated by means of analysis of regression residuals and by studies of stimulated multiple migrations. These techniques will be applied to a large data base of gene frequencies and to anthropometric variables from Europe and elsewhere. We shall isolate and identify components due to selection, migration, isolation by distance, and genetic drift by combined considerations of geographic variations patterns and spatial correlograms. Detailed analyses will be made for six countries in Europe and for several smaller scale data sets at the village and tribal level. In the European data we shall also study the relation between genetic differences and language differences. An ethnohistorical data base will be completed which will furnish quantitative information on gene flow and language boundaries in Europe for the past 3000 years. This data base will be tested against the gene frequencies to see whether the latter reflect the putative ethnohistorical relations.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01GM028262-08
Application #
3275558
Study Section
Genetics Study Section (GEN)
Project Start
1980-07-01
Project End
1992-06-30
Budget Start
1988-07-01
Budget End
1989-06-30
Support Year
8
Fiscal Year
1988
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
State University New York Stony Brook
Department
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
804878247
City
Stony Brook
State
NY
Country
United States
Zip Code
11794
Sokal, R R; Jacquez, G M; Oden, N L et al. (1993) Genetic relationships of European populations reflect their ethnohistorical affinities. Am J Phys Anthropol 91:55-70
Falsetti, A B; Sokal, R R (1993) Genetic structure of human populations in the British Isles. Ann Hum Biol 20:215-29
Sokal, R; Livshits, G (1993) Geographic variation of six dermatoglyphic traits in Eurasia. Am J Phys Anthropol 90:393-407
Sokal, R R; Harding, R M; Lasker, G W et al. (1992) A spatial analysis of 100 surnames in England and Wales. Ann Hum Biol 19:445-76
Sokal, R R; Oden, N L; Thomson, B A (1992) Origins of the Indo-Europeans: genetic evidence. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 89:7669-73
Sokal, R R (1991) Ancient movement patterns determine modern genetic variances in Europe. Hum Biol 63:589-606
Barbujani, G; Sokal, R R (1991) Genetic population structure of Italy. II. Physical and cultural barriers to gene flow. Am J Hum Genet 48:398-411
Livshits, G; Sokal, R R; Kobyliansky, E (1991) Genetic affinities of Jewish populations. Am J Hum Genet 49:131-46
Excoffier, L; Harding, R M; Sokal, R R et al. (1991) Spatial differentiation of RH and GM haplotype frequencies in Sub-Saharan Africa and its relation to linguistic affinities. Hum Biol 63:273-307
Barbujani, G; Sokal, R R (1991) Genetic population structure of Italy. I. Geographic patterns of gene frequencies. Hum Biol 63:253-72

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