The gene pool of the Belgorod oblast population : description of the "genetic landscape" of 22 district populations

Abstract

Data on the frequencies of all (50412) surnames in a total population of 849399 people have been treated by various methods of multivariate statistics (cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling, and factor analysis) to show that 22 district populations of the Central Chernozem region of Russia form a definite, ordered system of population groupsyesBS