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Isérables: A Bedouin village in Switzerland?

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DNA Fingerprinting: State of the Science

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Isérables is an alpine village — about 1000 inhabitants — which remained isolated till these recent years because of its particular geographical situation. The Isérables inhabitants call themselves “Bedjuis ”(Bedouin in local dialect) and regard themselves as descendants of the Sarrazins who invaded the Alps during the VIII–X centuries.

Our goal, in studying several DNA-VNTR polymorphims, in addition to some blood groups, within the Iserables community, was to see if there was any evidence supporting this popular belief.

As a preliminary phase of this project, the allelic frequencies for six VNTR loci analysed for 102 individuals of the village (all descendants of nine original families) are presented. The results are compared with those reported for Swiss and white populations.

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  1. Institut de Médecine légale, Bugnon 21 pb1005 Lausanne, Switzerland

    C. Brandt-Casadevall, N. Dimo-Simonin, A. Sutter & H.-R. Gujer

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  1. Núcleo de Genética Médica de Minas Gerais (GENE/MG), Av. Afonso Pena 3111/9, 30130-909, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    S. D. J. Pena

  2. Genetics Center, University of Texas Health Science Center, PO Box 20334, Houston, Texas, 77225, USA

    R. Chakraborty

  3. Molekulare Humangenetik, MA, Ruhr-Universität, Universitätsstr. 150, 44780, Bochum, Germany

    J. T. Epplen

  4. Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, Leicester, LEI 7RH, England

    Alec J. Jeffreys

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Brandt-Casadevall, C., Dimo-Simonin, N., Sutter, A., Gujer, HR. (1993). Isérables: A Bedouin village in Switzerland?. In: Pena, S.D.J., Chakraborty, R., Epplen, J.T., Jeffreys, A.J. (eds) DNA Fingerprinting: State of the Science. Progress in Systems and Control Theory. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8583-6_19

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