Isolation, Migration and Health

by Edited by Derek F. Roberts , N. Fujiki , K. Torizuka

• ISBN13: 9780521064828
• ISBN10: 0521064821
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-12
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This special symposium volume of the SSHB explores the biological effects of human isolation and migration, and how the situations to which they give rise help to elucidate a variety of biological problems, ranging from evolutionary change to disease etiology. The majority of the case studies presented here are by Asian investigators, and provide a uniquely accessible source of information. Besides documenting the results, the book illustrates the different methods employed in such studies. It will be invaluable to those contemplating similar investigations elsewhere, and will be of interest to researchers in a range of disciplines including epidemiology, clinical medicine, demography, anthropology, genetics and evolutionary biology.

Table of Contents

Preface

The legacy of the IBP - Presidential Address

The distinction between primary and secondary isolates

Time trends in the break-up of isolates

Factors influencing the frequency of consanguineous marriages in Japan

Break-up of isolates

Isolates in India, their origin and characterisation

Consanguineous marriages and their genetical consequences in some Indian populations

Biomedical and immunogenetic variation in isolated populations in India

Genetic distance analyses in Israeli groups using classical markers and DNA polymorphisms in the B globin gene

Non random distribution of Gm haplotypes in northern

Allele frequency estimation

Genetic affinities of human populations

Inherited neurological diseases in southern Japan

Serological and virological evidence for human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 infection among the isolated Hagahai of Papua New Guinea

Analysis of genes associated with hypercholesterolaemia in the Japanese population

Migrant studies and their problems

Tokelau: migration and health in a small Polynesian society a longitudinal study

Micromigrations of isolated Tureg tribes of the Sahara

Population structure in the eastern Adriatic: the influence of historical processes, migration patterns, isolation and ecological pressures, and their interaction

Diabetes and diabetic macroangiopathy in Japanese-Americans

Diabetes and westernisation in Japanese migrants

Environmental factors affecting ischemic heart disease

Epilogue

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