Affiliation:
1. Universidade de São Paulo
2. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Abstract
One hundred nineteen Waiãpi Indians and 348 inhabitants of Manaus, Amazonas, were tested using nine enzyme genetic systems in the first population and two in the second. The Waiãpi showed some marked differences compared to South American Indian averages in ACP*A (1% vs. 14 ± 9%), GLO1*1 (9% vs. 30 ± 14%) and ESD*1 (99.6% vs. 70 ± 17%), while ESD*1 and CA2*1 prevalences in the Manaus population were within the range previously found in the northern region of Brazil (ESD*1: 85% vs. 80-94%; CA2*1: 98% vs. 89-99.8%). The almost identical frequencies obtained for these two markers in this population, when the sample was subdivided according to skin color, suggest that such morphological classifications have little value in this region. Genetic distances between the Waiãpi and other tribes, obtained using these and other genetic markers, showed good parallelism with the geographical distances which separate these Indians from the other groups considered.
Subject
Genetics,Molecular Biology
Reference26 articles.
1. Failure of linguistic relationships to predict genetic distances between the Waiãpi and other tribes of lower Amazonia;Black F.L.;Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.,1983
2. Genetic studies in three South American black populations;Bortolini M.C.;Gene Geogr.,1992
3. Evolutionary relationships between black South American and African populations;Bortolini M.C.;Hum. Biol.,1995
4. Protein and hypervariable tandem repeat diversity in eight African derived South American populations: Inferred relationships do not coincide;Bortolini M.C.;Hum. Biol.
5. Genetic variation within two linguistic Amerindian groups: Relationship to geography and population size;Callegari-Jacques S.M.;Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.,1989
Cited by
3 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献