Chen, Liang ZhongEasteal, SimonBoard, Phillip GKirk, Robert L2015-03-202015-03-200018-7143http://hdl.handle.net/1885/13003Restriction fragment length polymorphisms at the renin and factor 13B loci located at chromosome lq32-lq42 were studied in 14 ethnic groups in the west Pacific region. The allele frequencies were combined with previously described 13-globin and albuminvitamin D binding protein haplotype frequencies and used to assess genetic affinities among eight major ethnic-geographic groups in this region. These population groups divide into two clusters with Australian Aborigines, Island Melanesians, and Highland Melanesians forming one cluster and east Asians, Southeast Asians, Micronesians, and Polynesians forming the other. The results indicate that Micronesians and Polynesians are derived from populations in Southeast Asia and that they originated independently of the Melanesian populations.15 pagesCopyright (c) 2004 ProQuest Information and Learning CompanyCopyright (c) Wayne State University Press. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0018-7143/author can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing); author can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing); subject to Restrictions below, author can archive publisher's version/PDFgenetic affinitiesOceanicpopulationsRFLPhaplotype analysisgenetic locichromosomes1992-02