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Surname Analysis As A Sampling Method For Recovery Of Genetic Information, Joan C. Stevenson, R. J. Brown, Moses S. Schanfield May 1983

Surname Analysis As A Sampling Method For Recovery Of Genetic Information, Joan C. Stevenson, R. J. Brown, Moses S. Schanfield

Anthropology Faculty and Staff Publications

An effective means of retrieving ethnic information on a population sample for which there is already medical information may be surname analysis, but this has never been tested. Thus, two methods of surname classification were used to select individuals with German, Italian, Irish and Polish surnames from a sample of 2306 Milwaukee immigrants and offspring of immigrants. This sample represented only those individuals who identified all grandparents as coming from the same European geopolitical unit, and all had been previously tested for Glm(f, z, a and x), G3m(b0, bl, b3, b4 and g), A2m(l and 2), and Km(l). Selected sera …


Growing Old In Different Societies: Cross-Cultural Perspectives., Jay Sokolovsky Jan 1983

Growing Old In Different Societies: Cross-Cultural Perspectives., Jay Sokolovsky

Faculty Books

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