INCIDENCE OF 3 MENDELIAN TRAITS IN 5 ENDOGAMOUS POPULATIONS OF PURNIA, BIHAR

Authors
PANDEY BN DAS PKL MISHRA AK JHA AK
Citation
Bn. Pandey et al., INCIDENCE OF 3 MENDELIAN TRAITS IN 5 ENDOGAMOUS POPULATIONS OF PURNIA, BIHAR, Current Science, 65(12), 1993, pp. 985-987
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Journal title
Current Science → ACNP
ISSN journal
00113891
Volume
65
Issue
12
Year of publication
1993
Pages
985 - 987
Database
ISI
SICI code
0011-3891(1993)65:12<985:IO3MTI>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
Incidence of three Mendelian traits, viz ABO blood, Rh blood group and PTC taste ability was studied in randomly selected representative sam ples of five endogamous populations of Purnia, Bihar. Allelic frequenc y was calculated and the biological distance between the pairs of popu lations estimated by Nei's formula. On the basis of genetic distance ( D) two main clusters were found-one for Muslims and the other for non- Muslims (Rajput, Brahmin, Bania and Kayastha).