Isonymy and the genetic structure of Switzerland I. The distributions of surnames

Annals of Human Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 431-455

  Barrai, I ^a   Scapoli, C ^a   Beretta, M ^a   Nesti, C ^a   Mamolini, E ^a   Rodriguez Larralde, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARTES PENNANTI;

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; NOMENCLATURE; POPULATION GENETICS; SWITZERLAND;

DATA COLLECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NAMES; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0030278991     PISSN: 03014460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014469600004672     Document Type: Article

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