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Natural selection in industrialized countries: a study of three generations of Italian newborns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1998

L. ULIZZI ,
P. ASTOLFI  and
L. A. ZONTA
L. ULIZZI
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Genetica e Biologia Molecolare ‘C. Darwin’, Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
P. ASTOLFI
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Genetica e Microbiologia ‘A. Buzzati-Traverso’, Università, Pavia, Italy
L. A. ZONTA
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Genetica e Microbiologia ‘A. Buzzati-Traverso’, Università, Pavia, Italy
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Abstract

We have studied the impact of natural selection on the Italian population, analysing the relationship between stillbirth and three related variables: birth weight, birth order and maternal age. A progressive relaxation of selection with time has been demonstrated by the reduction of the Haldane index calculated with respect to the three variables.

Type
Research Article
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Annals of Human Genetics , Volume 62 , Issue 1 , January 1998 , pp. 47 - 53
Copyright
© University College London 1998

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