Inbred women in a small and isolated Swiss village have fewer children

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1468-1474

  Postma, E ^a   Martini, L ^a   Martini, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Consanguinity; Family size; Humans; Inbreeding; Inbreeding depression; Isolated populations; Maternal effect; Reproduction; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FERTILITY; FITNESS; HABITAT TYPE; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; PLANT COMMUNITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ANIMALIA;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSANGUINITY; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETICS; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARITY; PEDIGREE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROBABILITY; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SWITZERLAND;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSANGUINITY; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARITY; PEDIGREE; PREGNANCY; RURAL POPULATION; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77954170475     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02013.x     Document Type: Article

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