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Evidence from which it is possible to examine the genetic structure of farming populations in northern England comes from several sources. One source is the detailed historical documentation that exists in parish and other civil records from which estimates can be made by indirect methods. The second source is direct genetic survey, followed by analysis of the gene frequencies and genotype distributions in the present population, supplemented perhaps by data collected on migration patterns and other demographic variables. This review will examine data from both, respectively, from the northeast (Northumberland) and the northwest (Cumbria) of England.
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Roberts, D.F. (1982). Population Structure of Farming Communities of Northern England. In: Crawford, M.H., Mielke, J.H. (eds) Current Developments in Anthropological Genetics. Advances in Human Genetics, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6769-1_12
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