The epistatic kinship describes the probability that chromosomal segments of length x in Morgan are identical by descent. It is an extension from the single locus consideration of the kinship coefficient to chromosomal segments. The parameter reflects the number of meioses separating individuals or populations. Hence it is suggested as a measure to quantify the genetic distance of subpopulation...

This article discusses the harmonization of kinship Christian-Muslim Toraja in cultural values Tongkonan, and philosophy misa 'kada dipotuo, pantan kada dipomate. The purpose this study is to analyze relationship that maintained harmonious Toraja. research qualitative research, with a phenomenological historical approach. author collects data through observation, interviews, literature review c...

Genomic selection is an accurate and efficient method of estimating genetic merits by using high-density genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs).In this study, we investigate an approach to increase the efficiency of genomic prediction by using genome-wide markers. The approach is a feature selection based on genomic best linear unbiased prediction (GBLUP),which is a statistical meth...

The goal of this paper is to relate formal analysis of kinship terminologies to a better understanding of who, culturally, are defined as our kin. Part I of the paper begins with a brief discussion as to why neither of the two claims: (1) kinship terminologies primarily have to do with social categories and (2) kinship terminologies are based on classification of genealogically specified relati...

The goal of this paper is to relate formal analysis of kinship terminologies to a better understanding of who, culturally, are defined as our kin. Part I of the paper begins with a brief discussion as to why neither of the two claims: (1) kinship terminologies primarily have to do with social categories and (2) kinship terminologies are based on classification of genealogically specified relati...

This paper presents results of a study of how family dysfunction contributes to adjustment of adolescents. The question is considered from two disciplinary vantage points: (1) structural anthropology, which considers dysfunction in terms of the affirmation of kinship relations; and (2) a family systems approach which emphasizes the role of factors such as family cohesion and adaptability. To ap...

This article explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth century. Because kinship rules vary by caste, language, religion, and region, we construct sex ratios by these categories at the district level by using data from the 1901 Census of India for Punjab (North), Bengal (East), and Madras (South). We find that the male-to-female s...

to follow. Paper 2: Sayana Namsaraeva: MPI Halle, and Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow “The ambiguous use of avuncular terminology in defining Buryat diaspora relations with homeland and host country” Abstract The significance of the relationship between mother’s brother and sister’s son (avunculate) in kinship has been one of the most discussed topics in the h...

This article investigates the relationship between grandparents and lesbian daughters in the context of childbirth, looking specifically at the role that pregnancy plays in shaping kinship affinities. Gender, sex, and heterosexuality are fundamental to Euro-American kinship discourse and practice; lesbian couples' parenthood through donor conception represents a significant departure from preva...

10 Maloney and Dal Martello (2006) reported that similarity ratings of pairs of related and unrelated children were almost perfect predictors of the probability that those children were labeled as being siblings by a second group of observers. Surprisingly, similarity ratings were not good predictors of whether a sibling pair was same-sex or opposite-sex or how close a pair was in age, suggesti...