Bioassay of kinship in northwestern Europe*

• Published in: Annals of Human Genetics
• Main Authors: MORTON, N. E., DICK, H. M., ALLAN, N. C., IZATT, M. M., HILI, E., YEE, S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1977
• Subjects: Barra; Iceland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-1809.1977.tb01921.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1469-1809.1977.tb01921.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-1809.1977.tb01921.x

SUMMARY Kinship of Barra (Outer Hebrides) is bioassayed as 0.0096 relative to northwestern Europe, in reasonable agreement with prediction of 0.008 relative to Britain. The exponential decline of kinship with distance is similar to Scandinavia. Kinship of larger populations is consistent with predic...