Moscow University
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Anthropology
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1) Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia; 2) Division of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia; 3) Genos Ltd, DNA Laboratory, Zagreb, Croatia; 4) Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; 5) Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia; 6) Medical School, University of Split, Split, Croatia; 7) Eberly College of Science, Penn State University, University Park, USA; 8) University of New Haven, New Haven, USA; 9) Anthropological Center of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
Novokmet Natalija, e-mail: natalija.novokmet@inantro.hr.
The Roma are a minority group that do not share a common homeland, speak different languages and consist of individuals of various religions. Population-genetic studies of Roma as a transnational isolate have mostly sought to compare their genetic affinities with proposed parental populations. The aim of this study is to assess the genetic structure of the Bayash Roma population from northwestern Croatia, and of the general Croatian population, and to investigate the extent of admixture between them. Population differentiation and structure were analyzed using a set of genetic microsatellite data from two original studies (100 Bayash Roma from northwestern Croatia and 195 individuals from the general Croatian population). Results demonstrated that two population clusters best explain the genetic structure. Most individuals of the Bayash Roma population were assigned to a single genetic cluster and most individuals of the general Croatian population were assigned to another. Admixture analysis revealed that the percentage of non-Croatian individuals in the general Croatian population is approximately twice higher than the percentage of non-Romani individuals in the Romani population. Higher percentages of admixed and non-Croatian individuals found in the general Croatian population and lower percentages of admixed and non-Roma individuals found in the Bayash Roma population are in line with the presence of ethnomimicry in Roma.
population substructure; admixture; Bayash Roma, ethnomimicry
Цит.: Novokmet Natalija, Galov Ana, Marjanović Damir, Škaro Vedrana, Projić Petar, Lauc Gordan, Primorac Dragan, Rudan Pavao GENETIC ANALYSIS OF ADMIXTURE BETWEEN BAYASH ROMA FROM NORTHWESTERN CROATIA AND THE GENERAL CROATIAN POPULATION // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2014; 3/2014; с. 76-76
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