Tag: genetics

  • The Biologistical Construction of Race: ‘Admixture’ Technology and the New Genetic Medicine Social Studies of Science Volume 38, Number 5 (2008) pages 695-735 DOI: 10.1177/0306312708090796 Duana Fullwiley, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and of Medical Anthropology Harvard University This paper presents an ethnographic case study of the use of race in two…

  • The Genetic Structure of Admixed Populations Genetics February 1, 1991 Volume 127, Number 2 pages 417–428 Jeffrey C. Long, Professor of Anthropology University of New Mexico, Albuquerque A method for simultaneously estimating the admixture proportions of a hybrid population and Wright’s fixation index, FST, for that hybrid is presented. It is shown that the variance…