Geography of surnames in the Azores: Specificity and spatial distribution analysis

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 634-645

  Cabral, Rita ^a,c   Branco, Claudia C ^a,c   Costa, Sonia ^a,c   Caravello, Gianumberto ^b   Tasso, Miro ^b   Peixoto, Bernardo R ^a,c   Mota Vieira, Luisa ^a,c  

^a HOSPITAL DO DIVINO ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DATA ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LIFE HISTORY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NOMENCLATURE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AZORES; DEMOGRAPHY; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; NAMES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 28044456744     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20424     Document Type: Article

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