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The application of models of population structure to human populations has followed two basic paths. As the models themselves were expanded, considerable interest was given to the problem of estimating parameters of these models from diverse data. A common ground for this work was Malécot’s (1948, 1969) definition of the coefficient of kinship, which is the probability that two random alleles from the same locus will be identical because of descent from one or more common ancestors. Estimation techniques that are used to relate this coefficient to observed populational variation are referred to collectively as “bioassay of kinship.” Morton and his co-workers have successfully extended the methods of kinship bioassay to gene frequencies, surnames, pedigrees, migration matrices, and metrics (Morton et al., 1968, 1971; Morton, 1973a, 1974, 1975).
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Lees, F.C., Relethford, J.H. (1982). Population Structure and Anthropometric Variation in Ireland during the 1930s. In: Crawford, M.H., Mielke, J.H. (eds) Current Developments in Anthropological Genetics. Advances in Human Genetics, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6769-1_13
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